Brycen
Brycen was given to 276 boys in 2025, #868 among boys’ names; 14,012 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,900 Americans named Brycen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brycen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brycen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brycen is “a male given name.”
Modern re-spelling of Bryson.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brycen?
#868 among boys’ names, 2025
Brycen fell from #451 in 2015 to #868 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.35 to 0.16 per 1,000.
999 babies in 2011, the peak
Brycen peaked in 2011, when 999 boys were given it, #318 among boys’ names. The 276 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 276 | #868 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 340 | #752 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 316 | #793 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 363 | #722 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 403 | #669 | 0.23 |
| 2020 | 450 | #608 | 0.26 |
| 2019 | 534 | #534 | 0.30 |
| 2018 | 572 | #502 | 0.31 |
| 2017 | 605 | #484 | 0.33 |
| 2016 | 644 | #477 | 0.34 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 671 | #451 | 0.35 |
| 2014 | 772 | #403 | 0.40 |
| 2013 | 815 | #374 | 0.43 |
| 2012 | 931 | #338 | 0.49 |
| 2011 | 999 | #318 | 0.53 |
| 2010 | 807 | #365 | 0.42 |
| 2009 | 596 | #457 | 0.30 |
| 2008 | 574 | #482 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 440 | #582 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 415 | #591 | 0.20 |
| 2005 | 340 | #639 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 310 | #656 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 225 | #774 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 238 | #735 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 238 | #729 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 206 | #790 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 151 | #955 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 145 | #955 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 118 | #1,074 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 96 | #1,186 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 55 | #1,646 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 54 | #1,664 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 41 | #1,966 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 47 | #1,776 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 38 | #1,981 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,063 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,793 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,770 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,475 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,694 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,616 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,486 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,430 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,718 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,704 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brycen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brycen has been given almost only to boys: 26 girls in 46 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brycen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brycen, and how old are they?
13,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 14,012 Americans ever recorded as Brycen. The median Brycen alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 10,495 people named Brycen (70 women and girls, 10,425 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,863 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 467 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,710 |
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 Brycen born?
The states with the most babies named Brycen are Texas, Pennsylvania and California, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 28 | #895 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #529 | 1.1× |
| California | 17 | #1,161 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 14 | #574 | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 13 | #462 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,069 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 12 | #597 | 1.7× |
| Alabama | 12 | #425 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 10 | #860 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 9 | #866 | 1.4× |
Where Brycen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brycen is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1976 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Brycen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 15,323 babies since 1880, Brycen is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 276 of their 282 babies (98%), again the 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 Brycen
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 Brycen and names like it
- Compare Brycen and BricenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrycen peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brycen since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Brycen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brycen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.