# Brecken (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/brecken/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,929 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,037 / 892 (15% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 33 | 4,374 |
| 2012 | 34 | 4,310 |
| 2013 | 34 | 4,260 |
| 2014 | 33 | 4,370 |
| 2015 | 25 | 5,318 |
| 2016 | 31 | 4,547 |
| 2017 | 32 | 4,410 |
| 2018 | 19 | 6,294 |
| 2019 | 15 | 7,423 |
| 2020 | 37 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 23 | 5,425 |
| 2022 | 30 | 4,605 |
| 2023 | 21 | 5,789 |
| 2024 | 18 | 6,444 |
| 2025 | 34 | 4,188 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 204 | 967 |
| 2012 | 244 | 863 |
| 2013 | 239 | 878 |
| 2014 | 304 | 769 |
| 2015 | 335 | 730 |
| 2016 | 332 | 735 |
| 2017 | 343 | 712 |
| 2018 | 322 | 741 |
| 2019 | 292 | 791 |
| 2020 | 291 | 796 |
| 2021 | 244 | 928 |
| 2022 | 249 | 928 |
| 2023 | 208 | 1,048 |
| 2024 | 189 | 1,126 |
| 2025 | 159 | 1,252 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.