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Breon

Breon reached its high-water mark in 1994 at number 1,078, and has been recorded 2,757 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,513th. About 2,700 Breons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Breon boys named Breon

Girls and boys called Breon

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 290 girls and 2,467 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 0 to 32.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 45 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
2,757
Estimated living today
2,700
Median age today
28
Peak year
1994
Best rank
1,078th
Rank in 2025
3,513th
First recorded
1966
Girls / boys
290 / 2,467

How old the living Breons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,757 babies given the name since 1966, about 2,700 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 780 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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.

Where Breon is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Breon is most concentrated in Virginia (12.0×), Florida (9.4×), Maryland (2.6×), South Carolina (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1994

The most popular boys’ names the year Breon peaked:

All the names of 1994

Related names

Breon against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.