girls:
144 births since 1977
#5572 (2nd percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1983
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
154 births since 1977
#7585 (2nd percentile)
The name Brean is the #7,585 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 154 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 2.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,572 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 144 births since 1977. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1983.
Brean first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (1977 for girls and 1983 for boys). Birth data for Brean is available in 19 out of the 29 years between 1977 and 2005 (19 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Brean has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2005, 54.5% of babies named Brean were girls.
For girls, Brean reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #777) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
For boys, Brean reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #687) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brean".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Brean. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.8% confident that Brean is pronounced as breen, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BREE-uhn, at 44.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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