Meaning not yet researched.
Bryon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #381 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #381 in 1973; #5,426 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bryon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,426 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #381.
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Bryon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #381 in 1973 · most boys in one year: 451 (1970).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Bryon, making it the 5,426th most common boys’ name of the year, up 273 places from #5,699 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 16 boys named Bryon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #381, reached in 1973. The most boys given the name in a single year was 451, in 1970. For comparison, it was #2,726 in 2015 and #979 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bryon in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1897 with 7 babies. In all, 14,737 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 3,772 babies named Bryon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 241 US boys were named Bryon; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brian (1,178,298 babies since 1880), Bryan (391,306 babies since 1880), Brynn (30,211 babies since 1880) and Bryn (8,861 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brehon 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: Brehon (19).
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 Bryon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 17 | #5,426 |
| 2024 | — | — | 16 | #5,699 |
| 2023 | — | — | 18 | #5,282 |
| 2022 | — | — | 21 | #4,730 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,805 |
| 2020 | — | — | 25 | #4,040 |
| 2019 | — | — | 26 | #4,020 |
| 2018 | — | — | 32 | #3,456 |
| 2017 | — | — | 37 | #3,135 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,698 |
| 2015 | — | — | 44 | #2,726 |
| 2014 | — | — | 46 | #2,629 |
| 2013 | — | — | 34 | #3,195 |
| 2012 | — | — | 38 | #3,010 |
| 2011 | — | — | 43 | #2,758 |
| 2010 | — | — | 62 | #2,148 |
| 2009 | — | — | 62 | #2,170 |
| 2008 | — | — | 62 | #2,165 |
| 2007 | — | — | 68 | #2,039 |
| 2006 | — | — | 78 | #1,772 |
| 2005 | — | — | 90 | #1,557 |
| 2004 | — | — | 81 | #1,608 |
| 2003 | — | — | 80 | #1,579 |
| 2002 | — | — | 97 | #1,357 |
| 2001 | — | — | 93 | #1,371 |
| 2000 | — | — | 102 | #1,271 |
| 1999 | — | — | 122 | #1,095 |
| 1998 | — | — | 124 | #1,065 |
| 1997 | — | — | 133 | #979 |
| 1996 | — | — | 130 | #974 |
| 1995 | — | — | 148 | #903 |
| 1994 | — | — | 147 | #898 |
| 1993 | — | — | 143 | #897 |
| 1992 | — | — | 183 | #771 |
| 1991 | — | — | 213 | #693 |
| 1990 | — | — | 205 | #709 |
| 1989 | — | — | 215 | #681 |
| 1988 | — | — | 273 | #558 |
| 1987 | — | — | 267 | #556 |
| 1986 | — | — | 242 | #569 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,873 | 306 | #496 |
| 1984 | — | — | 287 | #500 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,150 | 313 | #473 |
| 1982 | — | — | 312 | #484 |
| 1981 | — | — | 271 | #513 |
| 1980 | — | — | 338 | #458 |
| 1979 | — | — | 281 | #496 |
| 1978 | — | — | 349 | #421 |
| 1977 | — | — | 353 | #421 |
| 1976 | — | — | 347 | #416 |
| 1975 | — | — | 355 | #406 |
| 1974 | — | — | 369 | #404 |
| 1973 | — | — | 407 | #381 |
| 1972 | — | — | 422 | #384 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,464 | 433 | #386 |
| 1970 | — | — | 451 | #382 |
| 1969 | — | — | 405 | #393 |
| 1968 | — | — | 401 | #389 |
| 1967 | — | — | 342 | #414 |
| 1966 | — | — | 337 | #411 |
| 1965 | — | — | 328 | #425 |
| 1964 | — | — | 345 | #430 |
| 1963 | — | — | 325 | #441 |
| 1962 | — | — | 313 | #448 |
| 1961 | — | — | 305 | #464 |
| 1960 | — | — | 314 | #454 |
| 1959 | — | — | 304 | #458 |
| 1958 | — | — | 298 | #455 |
| 1957 | — | — | 270 | #472 |
| 1956 | — | — | 151 | #619 |
| 1955 | — | — | 97 | #740 |
| 1954 | — | — | 94 | #739 |
| 1953 | — | — | 67 | #879 |
| 1952 | — | — | 67 | #852 |
| 1951 | — | — | 48 | #1,023 |
| 1950 | — | — | 50 | #979 |
| 1949 | — | — | 41 | #1,098 |
| 1948 | — | — | 35 | #1,219 |
| 1947 | — | — | 32 | #1,299 |
| 1946 | — | — | 21 | #1,561 |
| 1945 | — | — | 18 | #1,586 |
| 1944 | — | — | 25 | #1,335 |
| 1943 | — | — | 17 | #1,775 |
| 1942 | — | — | 16 | #1,807 |
| 1941 | — | — | 13 | #2,005 |
| 1940 | — | — | 23 | #1,405 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,305 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,221 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,215 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,475 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,552 |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,770 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,126 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,637 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,016 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,756 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,495 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,792 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,673 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,572 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,526 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,231 |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #2,910 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,758 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,216 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #2,856 |
| 1897 | — | — | 7 | #858 |
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).