Breyah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Breyah has been given to 181 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Breyah, 2024
1 in 669,000
Breyah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Breyah?
Breyah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 324,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Breyah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Breyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Breyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Breyah was born before 2009 — so the typical Breyah is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 87.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 181
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (75).
Is Breyah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (13)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.9% average annual change
Spellings of Breyah
Breyah is not the most common spelling — Freya is, with 31.5% against Breyah's 0.29%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Breyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Breyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Breyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.