Biran
Biran was last recorded in 1987, when 11 babies were given it; 164 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Biran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Biran?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,988, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1986, the peak
Biran peaked in 1986, when 12 boys were given it, #3,668 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 11 | #3,988 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,668 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,362 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,242 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,975 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,711 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,377 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,540 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,831 | 5.8 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,637 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 11 | #3,285 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,555 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,585 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,737 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,490 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,438 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,398 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,270 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,000 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,640 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,098 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Biran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Biran has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Biran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Biran, and how old are they?
An estimated 148 Americans named Biran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 42 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 115 people named Biran (1 woman or girl, 114 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 152 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Biran?
Biran is a less common spelling of Byran: SSA has recorded 164 Biran and 1,400 Byran since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 1,653,882 babies since 1880, Biran is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,217 babies recorded by SSA was a Biran (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Biran
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Chirstopher | 1,051 | |
| Brain | 4,606 | |
| Christpher | 1,304 | |
| Graig | 1,336 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Biran and names like it
- Compare Biran and ByranBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBiran peaked in 1986.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Biran.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Biran alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.