Brion
Brion was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,357 among boys’ names; 2,896 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,520 Americans named Brion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 30 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brion?
#8,357 among boys’ names, 2025
Brion fell from #4,567 in 2015 to #8,357 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 5.3 per million.
87 babies in 1957, the peak
Brion peaked in 1957, when 87 boys were given it, #803 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,357 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,266 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,039 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,914 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,159 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,273 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,458 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,349 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,559 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,086 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,567 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,088 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,490 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,059 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,299 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,509 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,177 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,917 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,314 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,697 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,653 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,021 | 11.1 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,295 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,356 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,621 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,867 | 15.8 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,726 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,159 | 22.0 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,454 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 37 | #2,214 | 19.5 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,025 | 21.5 |
| 1994 | 47 | #1,823 | 24.3 |
| 1993 | 43 | #1,907 | 21.9 |
| 1992 | 40 | #1,978 | 20.0 |
| 1991 | 55 | #1,552 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 47 | #1,701 | 22.9 |
| 1989 | 43 | #1,763 | 21.5 |
| 1988 | 36 | #1,851 | 18.8 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,058 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 37 | #1,693 | 20.1 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,920 | 16.2 |
| 1984 | 50 | #1,326 | 27.7 |
| 1983 | 32 | #1,751 | 17.9 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,776 | 17.6 |
| 1981 | 33 | #1,729 | 18.4 |
| 1980 | 38 | #1,570 | 21.3 |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,207 | 33.1 |
| 1978 | 60 | #1,137 | 36.5 |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,198 | 32.9 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,114 | 37.0 |
| 1975 | 69 | #984 | 44.2 |
| 1974 | 57 | #1,092 | 36.3 |
| 1973 | 70 | #963 | 44.9 |
| 1972 | 59 | #1,052 | 36.4 |
| 1971 | 60 | #1,050 | 33.9 |
| 1970 | 68 | #979 | 36.6 |
| 1969 | 71 | #904 | 39.7 |
| 1968 | 32 | #1,367 | 18.4 |
| 1967 | 22 | #1,660 | 12.6 |
| 1966 | 28 | #1,453 | 15.7 |
| 1965 | 37 | #1,255 | 19.9 |
| 1964 | 35 | #1,328 | 17.6 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,306 | 17.7 |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,122 | 22.7 |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,195 | 20.7 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,192 | 20.2 |
| 1959 | 69 | #918 | 32.3 |
| 1958 | 71 | #893 | 33.5 |
| 1957 | 87 | #803 | 40.3 |
| 1956 | 64 | #935 | 30.3 |
| 1955 | 54 | #1,023 | 26.2 |
| 1954 | 41 | #1,170 | 20.1 |
| 1953 | 43 | #1,123 | 21.8 |
| 1952 | 23 | #1,586 | 11.8 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,140 | 21.2 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,315 | 16.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,348 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,734 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,516 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,892 | 9.2 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,769 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,896 Americans recorded as Brion, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brion, and how old are they?
2,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 2,896 Americans ever recorded as Brion. The median Brion alive today is 46 years old; half are between 30 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 2,275 people named Brion (113 women and girls, 2,162 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,551 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 530 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 745 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 656 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 388 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 201 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Brion born?
The states with the most babies named Brion are California, Pennsylvania and New York, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 118 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 108 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 106 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 73 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 57 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 49 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Brion with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Brion?
Brion is a less common spelling of Bryon: SSA has recorded 2,896 Brion and 14,737 Bryon since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,673,914 babies since 1880, Brion is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 2,250 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Brion
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Brion and names like it
- Compare Brion and BryonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sBrion peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brion since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Brion.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Brion alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.