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Breanna vs Brevard

American parents have registered 82,440 Breannas since 1880, against 14 Brevards. Breanna is still ahead, with 69 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Breanna against Brevard, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Breanna Brevard

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 59 years in which either name was published, Breanna for 57 years and Brevard for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Breanna Brevard
Total US births 82,44014
Most in one year 4,7019
Babies in 2025 69under 5
Estimated living today 81,0000
Median age today 2794
Peak year 19961928
Best rank 74th girls2,843rd boys
Rank in 2025 2,542ndunranked
First recorded 19651928
Girls / boys 82,375 / 650 / 14

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Brevards alive today are over 94; half the Breannas are over 27. That is 67 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Breanna and Brevard.