How rare is the name Brecken?

4,297 people in the United States have the first name Brecken, about 1 in 70,289. It ranks #4,377 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

BRECKEN

#4,377

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,297
About
1 in 70,289
This common or more
84%
Who bears it

Of the 4,297 people named Brecken, 91.6% reported their origin as White, 3.8% as two or more races and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino. 83.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Brecken peaked in 2017, when 375 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19762025
Peak year
2017
Births that year
375
In 2025*
193 ▼49%
Recorded as
mostly male

At least 5,929 babies have been given the name since 1976. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Brecken by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,635. The largest share of babies named Brecken, 65.1%, were born in 2013 or later.

1970s#22,9486
1980s#11,99774
1990s#8,605183
2000s#3,1791,072
2010s#1,6353,091
2020s#1,9041,503
Generation X 1965–800.1%
Millennials 1981–963%
Generation Z 1997–1231.8%
2013 and later65.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Brecken is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Brecken has been most common in Nebraska (9.4×), South Dakota (7.9×), and Kansas (6.3×), and least common in California (0.26×).

3,914 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Brecken

1 other first name also has 4,297 people.

#4,377 Keyon · 4,297

Either side of Brecken

#4,375 Canaan · 4,298#4,375 Madisen · 4,298#4,377 Keyon · 4,297#4,379 Kolten · 4,296

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Brecken, most common first.

#2,383 Brycen · 10,495#10,557 Breckin · 1,254#12,697 Breckyn · 974#14,367 Bricen · 822#17,471 Bracken · 631#21,789 Brekken · 463

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