Brya
Brya was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,114 among girls’ names; 361 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brya?
#11,114 among girls’ names, 2025
Brya rose from #13,253 in 2015 to #11,114 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.0 per million.
23 babies in 1993, the peak
Brya peaked in 1993, when 23 girls were given it, #4,404 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,114 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,397 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,710 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,724 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,306 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,678 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,104 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,037 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,253 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,030 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | #11,175 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,431 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,711 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,806 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,985 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,805 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,166 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,811 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,249 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,025 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,636 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,748 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,667 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,107 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,615 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,166 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,909 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,243 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,115 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,164 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,404 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,591 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 361 Americans recorded as Brya, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Brya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brya, and how old are they?
An estimated 357 Americans named Brya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 372 people named Brya (308 women and girls, 64 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 316 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Brya rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Brya?
Brya is a less common spelling of Bria: SSA has recorded 361 Brya and 16,870 Bria since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,273 babies since 1880, Brya is the fourth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 283 babies (2.8%), 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 Brya
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 Brya and names like it
- Compare Brya and BriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBrya peaked in 1993.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brya since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Brya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.