Bryar
Bryar is given to both girls and boys: 65 girls and 84 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,655 among girls’ names and #1,873 among boys’, #2,706 among all names counting both); 2,715 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,680 Americans named Bryar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bryar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bryar?
#1,873 among boys’ names, 2025
Bryar fell from #1,791 in 2015 to #1,873 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 43.8 to 49.2 per million.
149 babies in 2025, the peak
Bryar peaked in 2025, when 149 babies were given it (84 boys, #1,873 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 79 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,655 | 84 | #1,873 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,089 | 79 | #1,973 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,285 | 63 | #2,246 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,483 | 68 | #2,152 |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,075 | 60 | #2,303 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,979 | 68 | #2,073 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,238 | 95 | #1,681 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,865 | 93 | #1,688 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,929 | 74 | #1,942 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,293 | 76 | #1,925 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,261 | 84 | #1,791 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,498 | 82 | #1,817 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,851 | 90 | #1,669 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,149 | 89 | #1,698 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,185 | 63 | #2,107 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,424 | 66 | #2,056 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,856 | 61 | #2,187 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,806 | 42 | #2,832 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,600 | 35 | #3,194 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,553 | 40 | #2,840 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,936 | 35 | #2,961 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,793 | 48 | #2,346 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,148 | 42 | #2,474 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,898 | 34 | #2,759 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 40 | #2,431 | |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,025 | 41 | #2,335 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,303 | 36 | #2,464 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,689 | 27 | #2,930 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 25 | #2,988 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 35 | #2,297 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 31 | #2,446 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 40 | #2,043 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 20 | #3,249 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,573 | 29 | #2,468 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 34 | #2,141 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 11 | #4,695 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Bryar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,715 Americans recorded as Bryar, 29% are girls and 71% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bryar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bryar, and how old are they?
2,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,715 Americans ever recorded as Bryar. The median Bryar alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,792 people named Bryar (445 women and girls, 1,347 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,985 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 197 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 898 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,590 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,866 babies since 1880, Bryar is the second most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 149 of their 632 babies (24%), again the second 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 Bryar
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 Bryar and names like it
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Bryar.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bryar alive today were born 2013-2025.
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