Meaning not yet researched.
Brycen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 276 in 2025. Its best rank was #318 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #318 in 2011; #868 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brycen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#868 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #318.
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Brycen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 276 boys in 2025. Peak: #318 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 999 (2011).
In 2025, 276 US boys were named Brycen, making it the 868th most common boys’ name of the year, down 116 places from #752 in 2024. That is 64 fewer than the 340 boys named Brycen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #318, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 999. For comparison, it was #451 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brycen in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 14,012 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,355 babies named Brycen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,503 US boys were named Brycen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 644. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,189 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brycen ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #420 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bryson (83,525 babies since 1880), Brysen (3,686 babies since 1880) and Bricen (973 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bricyn and Brycenn 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: Bricyn (92), Brycenn (10).
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 Brycen in the open dataset we use.
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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 7 | #420 | #290 |
| Alabama | 12 | #425 | #314 |
| Missouri | 13 | #462 | #393 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #494 | #257 |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #529 | #310 |
| Michigan | 14 | #574 | #322 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #597 | #332 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #614 | #326 |
| Oregon | 5 | #627 | — |
| Indiana | 9 | #674 | #438 |
| Georgia | 10 | #860 | #443 |
| Ohio | 9 | #866 | #270 |
| Texas | 28 | #895 | #611 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #951 | #348 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,044 | #469 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,069 | #392 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,116 | #349 |
| California | 17 | #1,161 | #966 |
| New York | 8 | #1,319 | #774 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 276 | #868 |
| 2024 | — | — | 340 | #752 |
| 2023 | — | — | 316 | #793 |
| 2022 | — | — | 363 | #722 |
| 2021 | — | — | 403 | #669 |
| 2020 | — | — | 450 | #608 |
| 2019 | — | — | 534 | #534 |
| 2018 | — | — | 572 | #502 |
| 2017 | — | — | 605 | #484 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,714 | 644 | #477 |
| 2015 | — | — | 671 | #451 |
| 2014 | — | — | 772 | #403 |
| 2013 | — | — | 815 | #374 |
| 2012 | — | — | 931 | #338 |
| 2011 | — | — | 999 | #318 |
| 2010 | — | — | 807 | #365 |
| 2009 | — | — | 596 | #457 |
| 2008 | — | — | 574 | #482 |
| 2007 | — | — | 440 | #582 |
| 2006 | — | — | 415 | #591 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,257 | 340 | #639 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,801 | 310 | #656 |
| 2003 | — | — | 225 | #775 |
| 2002 | — | — | 238 | #735 |
| 2001 | — | — | 238 | #730 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,430 | 206 | #792 |
| 1999 | — | — | 151 | #957 |
| 1998 | — | — | 145 | #957 |
| 1997 | — | — | 118 | #1,076 |
| 1996 | — | — | 96 | #1,188 |
| 1995 | — | — | 55 | #1,651 |
| 1994 | — | — | 54 | #1,669 |
| 1993 | — | — | 41 | #1,971 |
| 1992 | — | — | 47 | #1,781 |
| 1991 | — | — | 38 | #1,987 |
| 1990 | — | — | 20 | #3,069 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,799 |
| 1988 | — | — | 20 | #2,775 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,479 |
| 1986 | — | — | 19 | #2,697 |
| 1985 | — | — | 12 | #3,619 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,489 |
| 1983 | — | — | 12 | #3,431 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,720 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,586 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #5,706 |
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).