Breck
About 3,092 American babies have been named Breck since 1945, most of them around 2016. In 2025 it ranked 2,991st. About 2,900 Brecks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Breck boys named Breck
Girls and boys called Breck
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 444 girls and 2,648 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 0 to 41.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 58 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,092
- Estimated living today
- 2,900
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 1,774th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,991st
- First recorded
- 1945
- Girls / boys
- 444 / 2,648
How old the living Brecks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,092 babies given the name since 1945, about 2,900 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Brecks
- Breck Eisner (born 1970)American director
People named Breck with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Breck is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Breck is most concentrated in Colorado (14.9×), Minnesota (7.7×), Texas (4.2×), Kansas (3.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular boys’ names the year Breck peaked:
Related names
Breck against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.