Bryan
Bryan is ranked 305th among boys in 2024 (1,105 births). Its best rank was 42nd, in 1977.
- Rank in 2024
- #305same as 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,1050.06% of boys
- Peak year
- 19858,717 births
- Best rank
- #42in 1977
- Since 1883
- 390,298people given the name
The story in the numbers
388,581 boys have been named Bryan in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1985, with 8,717 births — 0.47% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 149 → 305).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1985, and the 1980s alone account for 21%. It has spent 135 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 52 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,717 girls have also been given it, 0.44% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Bryan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | |
| 1890s | 405 | |
| 1900s | 197 | |
| 1910s | 462 | |
| 1920s | 1,162 | |
| 1930s | 1,295 | |
| 1940s | 3,976 | |
| 1950s | 20,628 | |
| 1960s | 55,300 | |
| 1970s | 71,342 | |
| 1980s | 80,504 | |
| 1990s | 59,751 | |
| 2000s | 61,930 | |
| 2010s | 25,689 | |
| 2020s | 5,929 |
In 1985, its biggest year
Bryan was the 48th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1985 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1985.
Names that rose and fell with Bryan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bradlypeak 1990
- Brantpeak 1970
- Dericpeak 1980
- Dawaynepeak 1977
- Andrepeak 1970
- Rolandopeak 1994
- Jaimepeak 1980
- Darnelpeak 1986
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.