Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Brea” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brea” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brea” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Brea” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Brea” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Brea” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Brea” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brea” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1972 11 0.0000035 11 100%
1973 22 0.000007292 22 100%
1974 25 0.000008224 25 100%
1975 47 0.000015566 47 100%
1976 54 0.000017797 54 100%
1977 70 0.000022037 70 100%
1978 78 0.000024576 78 100%
1979 76 0.000022843 76 100%
1980 80 0.000023225 80 100%
1981 85 0.000024571 85 100%
1982 60 0.000017104 60 100%
1983 61 0.000017613 61 100%
1984 49 0.000014045 49 100%
1985 58 0.000016251 58 100%
1986 33 0.000009277 33 100%
1987 65 0.000018027 65 100%
1988 49 0.000013261 49 100%
1989 69 0.000017948 69 100%
1990 124 0.000031373 124 100%
1991 121 0.000031063 121 100%
1992 226 0.000058835 226 100%
1993 268 0.000071082 268 100%
1994 231 0.000062136 231 100%
1995 177 0.000048332 177 100%
1996 186 0.000050998 186 100%
1997 155 0.00004275 155 100%
1998 153 0.000041596 153 100%
1999 154 0.000041691 154 100%
2000 149 0.000039419 149 100%
2001 139 0.000037132 139 100%
2002 112 0.00002996 112 100%
2003 106 0.000027878 106 100%
2004 114 0.000029836 114 100%
2005 141 0.000036672 141 100%
2006 146 0.000036904 146 100%
2007 169 0.000042274 169 100%
2008 145 0.000036889 145 100%
2009 171 0.000044762 171 100%
2010 144 0.000038964 144 100%
2011 148 0.000040462 148 100%
2012 145 0.000039646 145 100%
2013 125 0.000034287 125 100%
2014 129 0.000034805 129 100%
2015 115 0.000031073 115 100%
2016 100 0.000027258 100 100%
2017 97 0.000027124 97 100%
2018 79 0.000022469 79 100%
2019 83 0.000023913 83 100%
2020 84 0.000025145 84 100%
2021 88 0.000025974 88 100%
2022 62 0.000018326 62 100%
2023 55 0.00001661 55 100%
2024 51 0.000015322 51 100%

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