Meaning not yet researched.
Bryer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 382 in 2025. Its best rank was #704 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 89% of babies named Bryer in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#704 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Bryer: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 382 boys in 2025. Peak: #704 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 382 (2025).
In 2025, 382 US boys were named Bryer, making it the 704th most common boys’ name of the year, up 165 places from #869 in 2024. That is 104 more than the 278 boys named Bryer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #704, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 382. For comparison, it was #1,417 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 49 US girls were named Bryer, making it the 3,218th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,091 places from #4,309 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 33 girls named Bryer in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,218, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 49. For comparison, it was #5,689 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bryer in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 14 babies. In all, 2,946 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,217 babies named Bryer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,435 US boys were named Bryer; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 382. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,471 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bryer ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #262 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Briar (13,349 babies since 1880) and Bryar (2,715 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Breyer are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Breyer (262).
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 Bryer 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 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 7 | #262 | #250 |
| Kentucky | 18 | #297 | — |
| Nebraska | 8 | #299 | — |
| Missouri | 21 | #319 | #751 |
| Iowa | 11 | #333 | #421 |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #359 | — |
| Tennessee | 18 | #432 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #480 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #509 | #1,193 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #509 | — |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #511 | #451 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #514 | — |
| Alabama | 9 | #531 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #534 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #563 | — |
| Ohio | 17 | #580 | #851 |
| Michigan | 12 | #645 | — |
| Georgia | 15 | #651 | #1,016 |
| Indiana | 9 | #675 | #730 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #678 | — |
| Illinois | 13 | #687 | #1,088 |
| Colorado | 7 | #694 | — |
| Texas | 39 | #709 | #2,439 |
| Utah | 5 | #716 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #743 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #823 | — |
| Florida | 14 | #965 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,223 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,529 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,218 | 382 | #704 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,309 | 278 | #869 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,588 | 121 | #1,485 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,343 | 102 | #1,679 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,710 | 75 | #1,984 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,780 | 90 | #1,717 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,468 | 97 | #1,660 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,852 | 107 | #1,567 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,088 | 94 | #1,684 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,467 | 89 | #1,742 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,689 | 121 | #1,417 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,377 | 98 | #1,597 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,181 | 99 | #1,569 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,755 | 91 | #1,677 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,178 | 63 | #2,109 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,489 | 80 | #1,818 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,831 | 67 | #2,054 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,105 | 57 | #2,297 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,835 | 56 | #2,310 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,463 | 53 | #2,352 |
| 2005 | — | — | 30 | #3,326 |
| 2004 | — | — | 37 | #2,792 |
| 2003 | — | — | 34 | #2,853 |
| 2002 | — | — | 37 | #2,607 |
| 2001 | — | — | 25 | #3,428 |
| 2000 | — | — | 22 | #3,652 |
| 1999 | — | — | 19 | #3,859 |
| 1998 | — | — | 31 | #2,660 |
| 1997 | — | — | 20 | #3,467 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #2,931 |
| 1995 | — | — | 22 | #3,110 |
| 1994 | — | — | 21 | #3,230 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,041 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,598 |
| 1991 | — | — | 16 | #3,661 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #3,996 |
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).