Meaning not yet researched.
Bryan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,005 in 2025. Its best rank was #42 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #42 in 1977; #336 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bryan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#336 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #42.
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Bryan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,005 boys in 2025. Peak: #42 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 8,717 (1985).
In 2025, 1,005 US boys were named Bryan, making it the 336th most common boys’ name of the year, down 29 places from #307 in 2024. That is 100 fewer than the 1,105 boys named Bryan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #42, reached in 1977. The most boys given the name in a single year was 8,717, in 1985. For comparison, it was #166 in 2015 and #247 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bryan in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 6 babies. In all, 391,306 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 81,081 babies named Bryan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 13,970 US boys were named Bryan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,130. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,700 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bryan ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #104 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Brian (1,178,298 babies since 1880), Bryn (8,861 babies since 1880), Brynn (30,211 babies since 1880) and Bryon (14,737 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bryanne, Breyon and Bryne are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bryanne (1,030), Breyon (823), Bryne (115), Breyen (27).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bryan in the open dataset we use.
Bryan is listed as a nickname for Brian, Bryant.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 67 | #104 | #170 |
| Florida | 129 | #168 | #102 |
| Delaware | 5 | #210 | #177 |
| New Jersey | 41 | #234 | #106 |
| Nevada | 12 | #244 | #138 |
| Connecticut | 13 | #253 | #138 |
| California | 136 | #273 | #110 |
| Indiana | 25 | #308 | #337 |
| Texas | 118 | #315 | #106 |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | #319 | #264 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #322 | #154 |
| Georgia | 38 | #322 | #194 |
| Tennessee | 27 | #326 | #285 |
| New York | 55 | #326 | #125 |
| South Carolina | 16 | #330 | #212 |
| Maryland | 16 | #331 | #98 |
| Virginia | 23 | #354 | #158 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #384 | #294 |
| North Carolina | 27 | #408 | #155 |
| Illinois | 26 | #417 | #219 |
| Alabama | 12 | #424 | #143 |
| Washington | 17 | #427 | #257 |
| Kentucky | 11 | #428 | #248 |
| Oregon | 8 | #442 | #255 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #493 | #179 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #495 | #175 |
| Michigan | 16 | #519 | #303 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #520 | #371 |
| Missouri | 11 | #526 | #340 |
| Ohio | 19 | #545 | #253 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #563 | #326 |
| Arizona | 12 | #565 | #254 |
| Colorado | 8 | #632 | #254 |
| Utah | 6 | #632 | #278 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #696 | #282 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,005 | #336 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,105 | #307 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,082 | #305 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,172 | #291 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,685 | 1,211 | #285 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,359 | #259 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,425 | #255 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,641 | #233 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,840 | #211 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,713 | 2,130 | #186 |
| 2015 | — | — | 2,492 | #166 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,151 | 2,731 | #149 |
| 2013 | — | — | 2,893 | #133 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,581 | 3,083 | #121 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,616 | 3,521 | #110 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,811 | 3,938 | #97 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,630 | 4,856 | #92 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,610 | 5,505 | #82 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,247 | 6,180 | #78 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,553 | 6,699 | #66 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,566 | 6,454 | #72 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,618 | 6,732 | #65 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,853 | 6,619 | #64 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,929 | 6,617 | #64 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,583 | 6,125 | #69 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,426 | 6,143 | #70 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,744 | 5,391 | #74 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,173 | 5,309 | #74 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,398 | 5,251 | #69 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,571 | 5,560 | #66 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,482 | 5,444 | #70 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,542 | 5,606 | #66 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,164 | 6,159 | #61 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,877 | 6,835 | #57 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,215 | 6,757 | #61 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,631 | 7,439 | #57 |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,992 | 7,851 | #56 |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,157 | 8,036 | #54 |
| 1987 | 61 | #1,882 | 8,560 | #51 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,956 | 8,651 | #47 |
| 1985 | 71 | #1,652 | 8,717 | #48 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,731 | 8,270 | #48 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,610 | 8,191 | #47 |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,903 | 7,498 | #49 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,086 | 7,215 | #48 |
| 1980 | 65 | #1,723 | 7,513 | #49 |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,346 | 7,441 | #46 |
| 1978 | 55 | #1,828 | 7,291 | #43 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,129 | 7,886 | #42 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,138 | 7,288 | #43 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,365 | 6,998 | #47 |
| 1974 | 42 | #2,000 | 7,226 | #45 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,132 | 7,110 | #43 |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,896 | 7,035 | #45 |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,139 | 6,611 | #48 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,204 | 6,452 | #53 |
| 1969 | 36 | #2,105 | 6,469 | #51 |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,130 | 6,254 | #51 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,220 | 6,017 | #52 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,677 | 5,890 | #52 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,161 | 5,345 | #63 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,122 | 5,272 | #70 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,710 | 5,257 | #73 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,297 | 4,992 | #82 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,033 | 5,028 | #82 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,223 | 4,780 | #88 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,453 | 4,488 | #94 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,563 | 4,091 | #101 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,721 | 3,374 | #115 |
| 1956 | — | — | 2,438 | #132 |
| 1955 | — | — | 1,568 | #177 |
| 1954 | — | — | 1,225 | #204 |
| 1953 | — | — | 1,049 | #210 |
| 1952 | — | — | 849 | #230 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,903 | 809 | #235 |
| 1950 | — | — | 737 | #247 |
| 1949 | — | — | 671 | #249 |
| 1948 | — | — | 561 | #284 |
| 1947 | — | — | 602 | #277 |
| 1946 | — | — | 460 | #302 |
| 1945 | — | — | 308 | #342 |
| 1944 | — | — | 340 | #327 |
| 1943 | — | — | 320 | #344 |
| 1942 | — | — | 298 | #351 |
| 1941 | — | — | 216 | #392 |
| 1940 | — | — | 200 | #406 |
| 1939 | — | — | 177 | #428 |
| 1938 | — | — | 161 | #457 |
| 1937 | — | — | 132 | #500 |
| 1936 | — | — | 114 | #538 |
| 1935 | — | — | 108 | #553 |
| 1934 | — | — | 122 | #530 |
| 1933 | — | — | 109 | #549 |
| 1932 | — | — | 125 | #516 |
| 1931 | — | — | 125 | #516 |
| 1930 | — | — | 122 | #544 |
| 1929 | — | — | 124 | #522 |
| 1928 | — | — | 126 | #545 |
| 1927 | — | — | 105 | #608 |
| 1926 | — | — | 139 | #512 |
| 1925 | — | — | 149 | #498 |
| 1924 | — | — | 116 | #589 |
| 1923 | — | — | 98 | #650 |
| 1922 | — | — | 119 | #588 |
| 1921 | — | — | 103 | #626 |
| 1920 | — | — | 83 | #716 |
| 1919 | — | — | 87 | #663 |
| 1918 | — | — | 77 | #729 |
| 1917 | — | — | 52 | #886 |
| 1916 | — | — | 45 | #954 |
| 1915 | — | — | 50 | #868 |
| 1914 | — | — | 52 | #724 |
| 1913 | — | — | 45 | #668 |
| 1912 | — | — | 27 | #859 |
| 1911 | — | — | 15 | #864 |
| 1910 | — | — | 12 | #937 |
| 1909 | — | — | 20 | #592 |
| 1908 | — | — | 27 | #477 |
| 1907 | — | — | 22 | #496 |
| 1906 | — | — | 9 | #864 |
| 1905 | — | — | 10 | #798 |
| 1904 | — | — | 14 | #615 |
| 1903 | — | — | 10 | #741 |
| 1902 | — | — | 11 | #693 |
| 1901 | — | — | 19 | #434 |
| 1900 | — | — | 55 | #277 |
| 1899 | — | — | 36 | #289 |
| 1898 | — | — | 57 | #232 |
| 1897 | — | — | 97 | #159 |
| 1896 | — | — | 157 | #116 |
| 1895 | — | — | 27 | #359 |
| 1894 | — | — | 9 | #740 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,057 |
| 1892 | — | — | 10 | #693 |
| 1890 | — | — | 7 | #817 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #986 |
| 1883 | — | — | 6 | #812 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).