Meaning not yet researched.
Bryn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 94 in 2025. Its best rank was #744 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #744 in 2011; #2,021 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Bryn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,021 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #744.
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Bryn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 94 girls in 2025. Peak: #744 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 370 (2011).
In 2025, 94 US girls were named Bryn, making it the 2,021st most common girls’ name of the year, up 83 places from #2,104 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 91 girls named Bryn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #744, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 370. For comparison, it was #1,163 in 2015 and #4,791 in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Bryn, making it the 6,867th most common boys’ name of the year, down 347 places from #6,520 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 13 boys named Bryn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,594, reached in 1986. The most boys given the name in a single year was 45, in 1990. For comparison, it was #5,779 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bryn in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 8 babies. In all, 8,861 US babies have been given the name, 85% of them girls and 15% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,564 babies named Bryn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,267 US girls were named Bryn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 180. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,099 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bryn ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #942 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bryan (391,306 babies since 1880), Brynn (30,211 babies since 1880), Brian (1,178,298 babies since 1880) and Bryon (14,737 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Bryn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #942 | #586 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,247 | #592 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,724 | #1,511 |
| New York | 5 | #2,148 | #1,640 |
| California | 7 | #2,545 | #1,606 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,992 | #1,479 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,021 | 12 | #6,867 |
| 2024 | 91 | #2,104 | 13 | #6,520 |
| 2023 | 93 | #2,079 | 13 | #6,596 |
| 2022 | 109 | #1,858 | 18 | #5,246 |
| 2021 | 138 | #1,528 | 14 | #6,077 |
| 2020 | 113 | #1,763 | 13 | #6,354 |
| 2019 | 148 | #1,483 | 14 | #6,151 |
| 2018 | 168 | #1,340 | 16 | #5,579 |
| 2017 | 133 | #1,626 | 16 | #5,566 |
| 2016 | 180 | #1,325 | 17 | #5,355 |
| 2015 | 217 | #1,163 | 15 | #5,779 |
| 2014 | 276 | #967 | 10 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 337 | #803 | 15 | #5,701 |
| 2012 | 353 | #779 | 17 | #5,282 |
| 2011 | 370 | #744 | 17 | #5,230 |
| 2010 | 229 | #1,092 | 16 | #5,516 |
| 2009 | 157 | #1,482 | 10 | #7,765 |
| 2008 | 179 | #1,355 | 11 | #7,269 |
| 2007 | 185 | #1,319 | 11 | #7,163 |
| 2006 | 192 | #1,253 | 8 | #8,839 |
| 2005 | 213 | #1,113 | 17 | #4,849 |
| 2004 | 265 | #912 | 20 | #4,283 |
| 2003 | 212 | #1,060 | 23 | #3,743 |
| 2002 | 192 | #1,100 | 20 | #4,059 |
| 2001 | 171 | #1,194 | 22 | #3,729 |
| 2000 | 204 | #1,029 | 20 | #3,933 |
| 1999 | 212 | #976 | 9 | #6,608 |
| 1998 | 140 | #1,285 | 28 | #2,864 |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,596 | 19 | #3,614 |
| 1996 | 127 | #1,338 | 11 | #5,226 |
| 1995 | 108 | #1,475 | 27 | #2,692 |
| 1994 | 92 | #1,636 | 19 | #3,483 |
| 1993 | 101 | #1,541 | 32 | #2,354 |
| 1992 | 81 | #1,783 | 34 | #2,220 |
| 1991 | 98 | #1,566 | 37 | #2,026 |
| 1990 | 83 | #1,756 | 45 | #1,757 |
| 1989 | 85 | #1,631 | 42 | #1,799 |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,709 | 28 | #2,203 |
| 1987 | 67 | #1,763 | 31 | #1,981 |
| 1986 | 62 | #1,820 | 41 | #1,594 |
| 1985 | 66 | #1,727 | 28 | #2,024 |
| 1984 | 72 | #1,566 | 28 | #1,938 |
| 1983 | 65 | #1,692 | 27 | #1,964 |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,475 | 28 | #1,935 |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,645 | 23 | #2,209 |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,607 | 19 | #2,545 |
| 1979 | 82 | #1,462 | 19 | #2,477 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,272 | 16 | #2,681 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,427 | 16 | #2,675 |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,068 | 12 | #3,119 |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,172 | 21 | #2,140 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,689 | 14 | #2,684 |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,225 | 21 | #1,990 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,753 | 15 | #2,440 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,878 | 20 | #2,063 |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,945 | 27 | #1,660 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,021 | 16 | #2,141 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,806 | 13 | #2,332 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,224 | 15 | #2,042 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,157 | 8 | #3,016 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,064 | 17 | #1,923 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,716 | 12 | #2,431 |
| 1963 | 18 | #2,969 | 10 | #2,689 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,306 | 17 | #1,974 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,416 | 12 | #2,425 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,580 | 12 | #2,439 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,454 | 9 | #2,845 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,101 | 13 | #2,276 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,936 | 6 | #3,608 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,195 | 8 | #2,999 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,919 | 8 | #2,989 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,008 | — | — |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,724 | 5 | #3,866 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,839 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,425 | 5 | #3,781 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,791 | — | — |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,650 | — | — |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #2,903 |
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).