girls:
22 births since 2001
#5694 (0th percentile)
boys:
469 births since 2001
#4117 (10th percentile)
overall:
491 births since 2001
#7248 (6th percentile)
The name Brekken is the #7,248 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 491 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 6.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,117 (10.2% percentile) for all time with 469 births since 2001. For girls, it ranks #5,694 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 2001.
Brekken first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 .
The name Brekken has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brekken reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #872) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brekken ranks #893 for boys (2.0% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 69.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brekken reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #936) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brekken".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Brekken is pronounced as BREH-kuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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