Brea

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Brea: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Brea: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #253, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#253highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2003	#3099
2006	#2137
2007	#3667
2008	#3397
2009	#2326
2010	#2843
2011	#4049
2012	#2717
2013	#3160
2014	#2862
2015	#2496
2016	#2233
2017	#5765
2018	#2499
2019	#5591
2020	#2042
2021	#2942
2022	#2058
2023	#3218
2024	#2411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 21 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #253 among girls in Northern Ireland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2411 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3848 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2007–2024
Highest recorded position: #253 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2007–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Brea appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 166 births with the name.

Brea across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Brea's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#2042 (2020)	#2411 (2024)	21 of 27	166 (1998–2024)	13 (2020)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#413 (2007)	#253 (2024)	#253 (2024)	8 of 18	30 (2007–2024)	6 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#910 (2010)	#876 (2014)	#898 (2024)	3 of 15	9 (2010–2024)	3 (2010)

Brea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Brea in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	36	5 of 10	7
2010s	75	10 of 10	8
2020sbusiest	52	5 of 10	10

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Brea appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #253 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Brea's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2411	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2042	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2496	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2862	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2326	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#253	6	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#333	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#336	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#444	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #253, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 12 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Braylen · #1984, 12y
Braylon · #727, 11y
Breandan · #199, 13y
Breanna · #88, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Benas · #253, 22y
Aodan · #254, 20y
Chantel · #252, 25y
Eryk · #252, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Jaydon · #253, 29y
Katie-Louise · #253, 21y
Monty · #253, 30y
Codi · #254, 29y

Brea was ranked #253 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Brea and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Brea without appearing here.

Brea moved ahead of

Kari Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5591 and #4686 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2058 and #5669.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5591 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2042 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Brea

Fiadh Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2233 and #2757 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2502.
Eabha Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2499 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #5591 and #2458.
Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2496 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2706.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2042 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2942 and #1286.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #253 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Brea

Brea at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Brea across 3 official records

Brea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Brea appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Brea

Brea and the names beside it

Brea moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Brea

Brea at a glance

Brea across 3 official records

Brea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Brea appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Brea

Brea and the names beside it

Brea moved ahead of

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