Breaker
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 7 babies a year in the US.
Breaker by the numbers
Breaker was given to 7 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 12 babies in 2012, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Breaker
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Breaker. 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)
- Bakerone who bakes bread; occupational surname189 in the US (2017)
- Brewerone who brews beer41 in the US (2017)
- Brennerone who burns, fire maker26 in the US (2017)
- Beckerbaker; occupational surname used as given name18 in the US (2017)
- Brekken23 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Breaker
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