girls:
290 births since 1979
#5426 (5th percentile)
boys:
2.4k births since 1966
#2577 (44th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1966
#5182 (33rd percentile)
The name Breon is the #5,182 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,700 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 33.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,577 (43.8% percentile) for all time with 2,410 births since 1966. For girls, it ranks #5,426 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 290 births since 1979.
Breon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for boys and 1979 for girls). Birth data for Breon is available in 54 out of the 58 years between 1966 and 2023 (54 years for boys and 30 years for girls). 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 Breon has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Breon were boys.
For boys, Breon reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 13.2% percentile (ranked #674) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 52 births per million (ranked 13.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Breon ranks #891 for boys (2.2% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 26.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Breon reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #844) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Breon".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Breon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.2% confident that Breon is pronounced as BREE-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BREE-ahn, at 34.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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