Bracken
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning a fern plant or brake plant.
Babies a year
3
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#5137
3 babies
Bracken by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Bracken. In the US, 16 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 31 babies in 1998, making it a 1990s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Bracken. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Breckenspeckled, freckled; a spelling variant of Breckin369 in the US (2017)
- Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
- Brycenspeckled or freckled; modern respelling of Bryce601 in the US (2017)
- Bradenbroad valley; form of Bradley505 in the US (2017)
- Braidenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden192 in the US (2017)
- Braedenbroad hillside; a modern respelling of Braden148 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a plant or herb
Like Bracken, each of these has a plant or herb in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Brandonbeacon hill or gorse covered hill3,482 in the US (2017)
- Hadleyheather field2,726 in the US (2017)
- Reedred-haired or one who lives by reeds872 in the US (2017)
- Briarthorny shrub, bramble640 in the US (2017)
- Saigewise one; a respelling of Sage508 in the US (2017)
- Rodneyfamous island, clearing with reeds301 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Bracken
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