Bret
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#4,883
down −157 places
2025 births
20
down −1 births
All-time births
29,819
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1959
- 1,839 births
- Best rank
- #170
- in 1959
- First recorded
- 1926
- #4,276 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1976
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 86 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19591,839#170Peak
- 19581,514#187
- 19601,242#223
- 19821,098#217
- 1970871#260
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #170 in 1959 · peak births 1,839 in 1959
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
29,819 boys · 232 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Bret has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.