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NAMES LIKE BRET
Same rise and fall as Bret, around the same years.
WHERE BRET IS POPULAR · 2024
Fewer than 5 babies were named Bret in any single state in 2024, so no state lists it.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Bret name popularity
Bret has been given to 30,051 babies in the United States since 1926.
It peaked in 1959, when 1,839 babies got the name, and its best rank was #367 in 1959.
In 2025, 20 babies were named Bret (#10,279 in the country), 99% below the peak. That is down 39% from 2015.
Almost every Bret is a boy.
An estimated 28K people named Bret are alive in the US today, with a median age of 52.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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