Bryden
Bryden was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,590 among boys’ names; 1,968 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,940 Americans named Bryden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bryden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bryden?
#3,590 among boys’ names, 2025
Bryden fell from #1,642 in 2015 to #3,590 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 50.6 to 18.1 per million.
149 babies in 2013, the peak
Bryden peaked in 2013, when 149 boys were given it, #1,204 among boys’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,590 | 18.1 |
| 2024 | 27 | #3,998 | 15.7 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,900 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,700 | 17.2 |
| 2021 | 41 | #2,980 | 23.4 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,350 | 33.0 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,342 | 32.3 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,124 | 36.3 |
| 2017 | 77 | #1,885 | 41.6 |
| 2016 | 84 | #1,800 | 44.3 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 97 | #1,642 | 50.6 |
| 2014 | 135 | #1,309 | 70.3 |
| 2013 | 149 | #1,204 | 78.8 |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,492 | 56.9 |
| 2011 | 130 | #1,310 | 68.4 |
| 2010 | 127 | #1,342 | 66.2 |
| 2009 | 122 | #1,391 | 61.5 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,162 | 30.4 |
| 2007 | 75 | #1,893 | 36.1 |
| 2006 | 44 | #2,662 | 21.4 |
| 2005 | 45 | #2,494 | 22.5 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,242 | 25.7 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,848 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,107 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,148 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,219 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,595 | 10.9 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,023 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,163 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,032 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #5,976 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,139 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,394 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,194 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,892 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,693 | 4.0 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,081 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,400 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,650 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,359 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,716 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,585 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,951 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bryden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,968 Americans recorded as Bryden, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 31 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Bryden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bryden, and how old are they?
1,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,968 Americans ever recorded as Bryden. The median Bryden alive today is 14 years old; half are between 10 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,744 people named Bryden (70 women and girls, 1,674 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,745 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 99 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 961 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 878 |
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 Bryden born?
The states with the most babies named Bryden are Ohio, Texas and California, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 137 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 135 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 111 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 39 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 36 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 20 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Oklahoma | 19 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Bryden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bryden is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1977 it was given 1.8 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 Bryden 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,676 babies since 1880, Bryden is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 41 babies (76%), 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 Bryden
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 Bryden and names like it
- Compare Bryden and BrydonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBryden peaked in 2013.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bryden since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Bryden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bryden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.