girls:
5.6k births since 1972
#2215 (61st percentile)
overall:
5.6k births since 1972
#3623 (53rd percentile)
The name Brea is the #3,623 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,632 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 53.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,215 (61.2% percentile) for all time with 5,632 births since 1972.
Brea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (first recorded for girls in 1972).
For girls, Brea reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 30.1% percentile (ranked #605) with 136 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 136 births per million (ranked 30.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Brea ranks #897 for girls (5.3% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 23.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brea".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Brea", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 3 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Bree" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Bree..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Brea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.6% confident that Brea is pronounced as BREE-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bray, at 30.4% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like B R IY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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