Bree

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Bree: Recorded since 1996, it reached #424 in 2019, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#424highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1998	#925
1999	#928
2000	#993
2001	#2023
2002	#3409
2003	#2436
2004	#3197
2005	#2247
2006	#1502
2007	#1656
2008	#1391
2009	#1325
2010	#1901
2011	#1168
2012	#1720
2013	#1864
2014	#2464
2015	#1865
2016	#1635
2017	#1628
2018	#2187
2019	#2643
2020	#1687
2021	#1866
2022	#1556
2023	#2346
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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #790 among girls in Scotland, #2411 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2350 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2016–2019
Highest recorded position: #424 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2019 (recorded 2016–2019).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Bree appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 410 births with the name.

Bree 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.

Bree'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	#2350 (1996)	#925 (1998)	#2411 (2024)	28 of 29	410 (1996–2024)	28 (2011)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#764 (2006)	#555 (2023)	#885 (2025)	7 of 20	27 (2006–2025)	6 (2012)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#440 (2016)	#424 (2019)	#424 (2019)	2 of 4	6 (2016–2019)	3 (2016)

Bree 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 Bree in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	52	3 of 10	17
2000s	127	10 of 10	13
2010sbusiest	158	10 of 10	16
2020s	73	5 of 10	15

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 16 births a year.

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

Bree 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #424 in Northern Ireland in 2019.

Bree'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	#2346	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1556	19	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1866	15	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1687	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1628	19	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1635	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1865	15	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2464	10	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1864	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1720	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1168	28	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1901	14	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1325	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1391	20	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1656	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1502	16	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2436	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#993	21	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#928	23	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#925	23	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#612	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	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
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #424, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 28 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2006, and 28 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.

Breda · #131, 49y
Brede · #181, 79y
Breeda · #252, 19y
Breege · #272, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Ferne · #424, 27y
Lorena · #424, 32y
Calla · #418, 27y
Fox · #418, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Annie-Mae · #424, 26y
Azaria · #424, 29y
Enna · #424, 16y
Ferne · #424, 27y

Bree was ranked #424 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2019. 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.

Bree 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 Bree without appearing here.

Bree moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1687 and #5493.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2187 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2643 and #5591.
Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1687 and #4535.
Cameron Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2346 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #4843.

Moved ahead of Bree

Mila Compare
In 2000 they stood at #993 and #1313 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2023 and #1107.
Arlo Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1556 and #1849 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2346 and #1469.
Audrey Compare
In 2000 they stood at #993 and #1313 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2023 and #1170.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1628 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2187 and #1436.

Moved the opposite way to Bree

Ezra Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bree went from #925 to #2411 while Ezra went from #3848 to #1302.
Blake Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bree went from #928 to #2411 while Blake went from #3900 to #432.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bree went from #928 to #2411 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bree went from #928 to #2411 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.

Moved the same way as Bree

Finley Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bree went from #925 to #2411 and Finley from #1392 to #3318.
Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Bree went from #925 to #2346 and Josefine from #3848 to #5687.
Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bree went from #993 to #2411 and Hayden from #3912 to #5891.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #424 in Northern Ireland in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bree

Bree at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bree across 3 official records

Bree by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bree appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Bree at a glance

Bree across 3 official records

Bree by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bree appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Bree

Bree and the names beside it

Bree moved ahead of

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