Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Brett” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brett” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brett” 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 “Brett” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brett” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brett” 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
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 -100%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 -100%
1940 15 0.000006514 15 -100%
1941 18 0.000007388 18 -100%
1942 25 0.000009151 25 -100%
1943 25 0.000008857 25 -100%
1944 18 0.000006691 18 -100%
1945 26 0.000009801 26 -100%
1946 48 0.000015022 48 -100%
1947 94 0.000026094 94 -100%
1948 140 0.00004055 140 -100%
1949 139 0.000039888 139 -100%
1950 222 0.000063368 7 215 -94%
1951 230 0.000062437 7 223 -94%
1952 260 0.000068457 9 251 -93%
1953 273 0.000070842 8 265 -94%
1954 437 0.000109779 7 430 -97%
1955 471 0.000117308 7 464 -97%
1956 399 0.000096773 6 393 -97%
1957 670 0.000159442 17 653 -95%
1958 2158 0.000522025 23 2135 -98%
1959 2244 0.000539684 18 2226 -98%
1960 2340 0.000563338 20 2320 -98%
1961 2082 0.000502619 15 2067 -99%
1962 2520 0.000624478 25 2495 -98%
1963 2645 0.000668233 36 2609 -97%
1964 2588 0.000665705 37 2551 -97%
1965 2372 0.000654264 29 2343 -98%
1966 2606 0.000749787 31 2575 -98%
1967 2819 0.000830364 29 2790 -98%
1968 2929 0.000866975 29 2900 -98%
1969 3229 0.000929122 45 3184 -97%
1970 3415 0.000946898 45 3370 -97%
1971 3405 0.00099203 46 3359 -97%
1972 3562 0.001133314 59 3503 -97%
1973 3089 0.001023903 58 3031 -96%
1974 2756 0.000906579 79 2677 -94%
1975 2845 0.000942242 66 2779 -95%
1976 2502 0.000824572 85 2417 -93%
1977 2566 0.000807809 78 2488 -94%
1978 2374 0.000747983 69 2305 -94%
1979 3070 0.000922753 73 2997 -95%
1980 3207 0.000931048 79 3128 -95%
1981 3851 0.001113207 76 3775 -96%
1982 4142 0.001180743 116 4026 -94%
1983 4060 0.001172279 85 3975 -96%
1984 4175 0.001196702 77 4098 -96%
1985 4423 0.001239244 95 4328 -96%
1986 4906 0.001379222 175 4731 -93%
1987 4556 0.001263585 127 4429 -94%
1988 4473 0.001210541 98 4375 -96%
1989 4550 0.001183525 122 4428 -95%
1990 4471 0.001131189 78 4393 -97%
1991 4223 0.001084137 71 4152 -97%
1992 3888 0.001012164 65 3823 -97%
1993 3599 0.000954571 54 3545 -97%
1994 3543 0.000953021 108 3435 -94%
1995 3684 0.001005965 117 3567 -94%
1996 3668 0.001005704 91 3577 -95%
1997 3336 0.000920086 68 3268 -96%
1998 2955 0.000803381 69 2886 -95%
1999 2829 0.000765864 56 2773 -96%
2000 2424 0.000641286 41 2383 -97%
2001 2001 0.000534542 37 1964 -96%
2002 1891 0.000505846 23 1868 -98%
2003 1646 0.000432894 32 1614 -96%
2004 1606 0.000420317 41 1565 -95%
2005 1417 0.000368545 28 1389 -96%
2006 1098 0.00027754 16 1082 -97%
2007 976 0.000244141 18 958 -96%
2008 1098 0.000279342 28 1070 -95%
2009 780 0.000204179 14 766 -96%
2010 748 0.000202395 19 729 -95%
2011 522 0.000142709 12 510 -95%
2012 446 0.000121946 19 427 -91%
2013 370 0.00010149 10 360 -95%
2014 403 0.000108732 17 386 -92%
2015 329 0.000088897 5 324 -97%
2016 355 0.000096765 22 333 -88%
2017 331 0.000092556 16 315 -90%
2018 300 0.000085327 12 288 -92%
2019 283 0.000081534 8 275 -94%
2020 258 0.000077232 17 241 -87%
2021 221 0.000065231 20 201 -82%
2022 237 0.000070053 21 216 -82%
2023 199 0.000060099 12 187 -88%
2024 220 0.000066096 15 205 -86%

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