Meaning not yet researched.
Bryston: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,173 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,173 in 2012; #5,427 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bryston in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,427 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #2,173.
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Bryston: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,173 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 61 (2014).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Bryston, making it the 5,427th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,959 places from #3,468 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 33 boys named Bryston in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,173, reached in 2012. The most boys given the name in a single year was 61, in 2014. For comparison, it was #3,306 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bryston in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 6 babies. In all, 1,163 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 502 babies named Bryston.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 353 US boys were named Bryston; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Briston, Brysten and Bristyn 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Briston (440), Brysten (137), Bristyn (118), Bristen (37), Brystin (19), Bristin (18), Bristan (5).
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 Bryston 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 | #5,427 |
| 2024 | — | — | 33 | #3,468 |
| 2023 | — | — | 21 | #4,769 |
| 2022 | — | — | 26 | #4,107 |
| 2021 | — | — | 34 | #3,369 |
| 2020 | — | — | 30 | #3,588 |
| 2019 | — | — | 49 | #2,629 |
| 2018 | — | — | 44 | #2,758 |
| 2017 | — | — | 52 | #2,455 |
| 2016 | — | — | 47 | #2,631 |
| 2015 | — | — | 34 | #3,306 |
| 2014 | — | — | 61 | #2,209 |
| 2013 | — | — | 56 | #2,284 |
| 2012 | — | — | 61 | #2,173 |
| 2011 | — | — | 54 | #2,353 |
| 2010 | — | — | 44 | #2,738 |
| 2009 | — | — | 53 | #2,407 |
| 2008 | — | — | 31 | #3,495 |
| 2007 | — | — | 40 | #2,926 |
| 2006 | — | — | 31 | #3,394 |
| 2005 | — | — | 42 | #2,622 |
| 2004 | — | — | 40 | #2,646 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,851 |
| 2002 | — | — | 35 | #2,695 |
| 2001 | — | — | 32 | #2,869 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,231 |
| 1999 | — | — | 19 | #3,860 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #3,866 |
| 1997 | — | — | 19 | #3,615 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,040 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,719 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,499 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,737 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #4,913 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,383 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,433 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #5,834 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,025 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #5,886 |
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).