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Breckin

Gender
Boy
Say it
BREK-en
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#5,606 for boys

Breckin is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,606th for boys in the US (16 babies).

Where does Breckin come from?

Modern: spelling of Brecken; modern coinage, perhaps from a surname

Meaning borrowed from Brecken. More on Wiktionary.

Is Breckin a girl's or a boy's name?

Breckin is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Breckin in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,606among boys
Babies in 2025
16about 1 in 110,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 40% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 16 boys in the US were named Breckin, making it the 5,606th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,137th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 89 boys. It first appears in the records in 1993.

Half of all the boys named Breckin in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 202 boys in the US were given Breckin or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #982, up from #5,606 for this spelling alone.

In 2017, 15% of the babies named Breckin in the US were girls.

1993Busiest: 89 in 20122025
Breckin in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202516#5,606
202410#7,760
202319#5,070
202212#6,822
202123#4,358
202024#4,137
201928#3,791
201823#4,350
201756#2,318
201654#2,387
201569#2,055
201482#1,812
201385#1,724
201289#1,696
201175#1,865
201077#1,867
200987#1,754
200859#2,236
200762#2,164
200645#2,620
200553#2,233
200448#2,340
200336#2,725
200275#1,606
200125#3,405
20009#6,832
19990–
19986#8,472
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19936#7,631

Names like Breckin

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Breckin

Names related to Breckin

More Modern names

Every Modern name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Breckin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/breckin, updated 20 October 2026.