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Bret
Rank in 2024
#4,847
Born in 2024
21
Peak year
1959 · #170
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 21 boys were named Bret, about 1 in every 81,682.
- It peaked in 1959 with 1,839 babies, ranked #170.
- It first shows up in the records in 1926.
- 29,798 boys have been named Bret since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Bret per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 0.4Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 49 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 8,389 babies, 0.22 per 1,000. Gen X: 10,017 babies, 0.37 per 1,000. Millennials: 8,254 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,746 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 338 babies, 0.02 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
- A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Brett, ultimately meaning "a Breton".
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Bret, CC BY-SA 4.0.