Brya — #12582 US girls' name
347 babies named Brya in U.S. Social Security records since 1992, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 29% of names given to girls today.
39% of everyone ever named Brya was born in this single decade.
23 babies were named Brya in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Brya
The Social Security Administration has registered 347 babies named Brya between 1992 and 2024, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Brya currently holds the #12582 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 23 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Brya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 135 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Brya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Brya in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Brya in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 347 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Brya at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Brya popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1992
- Peak year (1993)
- 23
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
Currently ranks #12582 among girls.
347 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 23 births in a single year.
Brya popularity over time — boys
6 total births recorded since 1985 (Brya as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Brya accounts for 2% of total recorded use across both genders.
Brya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 135 births that decade — 39% of Brya's all-time total
Brya decade highlights
- Peak decade 135 births
- Runner-up 100 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Brya's strongest decade
135 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Brya by state
Where Brya concentrates geographically — total births since 1992
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 1.4% |
5 of 347 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 1.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 1.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1992–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.