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Brekken

Boy · BREK-en · Modern

Brekken is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).

Where does Brekken come from?

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

Say it
BREK-en

Meaning borrowed from Brecken. More on Wiktionary.

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

Brekken is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Brekken in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,239among boys
Babies in 2025
9about 1 in 190,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 41% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Brekken, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,292nd. Its busiest year was 2014, with 37 boys. It first appears in the records in 2001.

Half of all the boys named Brekken in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 202 boys in the US were given Brekken or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #982, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.

2001Busiest: 37 in 20142025
Brekken in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20259#8,239
20246#10,930
202323#4,452
202225#4,180
202119#4,932
202013#6,292
201920#4,802
201831#3,520
201723#4,327
201635#3,229
201529#3,683
201437#3,036
201335#3,120
201232#3,368
201130#3,509
201020#4,676
200915#5,796
200817#5,244
200714#5,898
20068#8,726
200512#6,220
20048#8,137
200310#6,708
20025#10,660
20019#6,928

Names like Brekken

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

Other spellings of Brekken

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