Brison
Brison was given to 15 boys in 2025, #5,890 among boys’ names; 1,242 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Brison and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brison by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brison?
#5,890 among boys’ names, 2025
Brison fell from #2,388 in 2015 to #5,890 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 28.2 to 8.8 per million.
72 babies in 2012, the peak
Brison peaked in 2012, when 72 boys were given it, #1,963 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,890 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,723 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,903 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,897 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,125 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,932 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 46 | #2,736 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 51 | #2,511 | 28.1 |
| 2017 | 40 | #2,961 | 21.6 |
| 2016 | 45 | #2,690 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #2,388 | 28.2 |
| 2014 | 55 | #2,345 | 28.6 |
| 2013 | 46 | #2,596 | 24.3 |
| 2012 | 72 | #1,963 | 38.0 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,667 | 23.7 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,214 | 30.8 |
| 2009 | 49 | #2,564 | 24.7 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,954 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 39 | #2,973 | 18.8 |
| 2006 | 44 | #2,661 | 21.4 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,175 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,164 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,736 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,563 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,745 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 32 | #2,804 | 16.3 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,288 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,301 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,749 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,206 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,314 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,138 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,393 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,904 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,005 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,890 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,208 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,246 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,535 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,899 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,209 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,567 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,085 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,438 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,370 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,112 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brison a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brison has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brison: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brison, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,242 Americans ever recorded as Brison. The median Brison alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,087 people named Brison (11 women and girls, 1,076 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,099 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 147 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 593 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 468 |
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).
How common is the spelling Brison?
Brison is a less common spelling of Bryson: SSA has recorded 1,242 Brison and 83,525 Bryson since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 89,244 babies since 1880, Brison is the third most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 2,505 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
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 Brison
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 Brison and names like it
- Compare Brison and BrysonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrison peaked in 2012.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brison since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Brison.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brison alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.