How Many People Are Named Bret?
people named Bret are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 12,994 people in the US has this name
Based on 30,051 babies named Bret in Social Security records from 1926 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
1,839 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of BRETT.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Bret in English. Counting Bret and these spellings together, about 174,966 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Bret, 0.9% were girls and 99.1% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Bret alive today is about 48 years old, and 60% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 36 and 60 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Bret first appears in the records in 1926 and was given most often in 1959, to 1,839 babies. In 2025, 20 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1926 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Bret has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #170, in 1959. In 2025 it ranked #4,882.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,882 |
| Best rank | #170 (1959) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #267 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Bret alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Bret were born in California than in any other state: about 3,328 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Bret was given 4.4 times as often in Utah, 3 times in Idaho and 2.8 times in Iowa.
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