Brea is a female first name.
Brea is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,784 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,783 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Brea.
Brea is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Brea - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 730 in 1993. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Brea really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Brea was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
62 babies were named Brea in 2022 - that's 1 in 2,390,837 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Brea ranked 2,458 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Brea, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 31 states are home to women and girls named Brea. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Brea living in one state or another. If your name is Brea and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Maryland, which has the most people named Brea relative to the population, you still have to ask 22,638 women and girls their names before you hear Brea as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Brea is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.
If your name is Brea and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Brea, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Rocket
Elephant
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Brea
Brea
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
R
E
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
R
E
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Brea sounds like this:
