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Breanna vs Breeze

American parents have registered 82,440 Breannas since 1880, against 1,146 Breezes. Breanna is still ahead, with 69 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Breanna against Breeze, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Breanna Breeze

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Breanna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1965 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Breanna had 69 and Breeze had 55.

Side by side

  Breanna Breeze
Total US births 82,4401,146
Most in one year 4,70156
Babies in 2025 6955
Estimated living today 81,0001,100
Median age today 2713
Peak year 19962005
Best rank 74th girls3,942nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,542nd5,238th
First recorded 19651974
Girls / boys 82,375 / 65925 / 221

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Breannas alive today are over 27; half the Breezes are over 13. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Breanna Breeze
England and Wales 546150

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Breanna and Breeze.