Bryen
Bryen was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 432 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bryen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bryen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,525, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 2001, the peak
Bryen peaked in 2001, when 22 boys were given it, #3,723 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #12,525 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,317 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,243 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,349 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,915 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,982 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,759 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,239 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,138 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,444 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 9 | #8,271 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,499 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,316 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,530 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,844 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,523 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,723 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,072 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,788 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,675 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,697 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,045 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,825 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,920 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,040 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,745 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,593 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,425 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,548 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,484 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,606 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,401 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,878 | 3.2 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,989 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,717 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,167 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,195 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,952 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,569 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,592 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,112 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,660 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,448 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,887 | 3.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,598 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,016 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bryen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bryen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bryen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bryen, and how old are they?
An estimated 414 Americans named Bryen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 21 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 464 people named Bryen (12 women and girls, 452 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 411 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Bryen?
Bryen is a less common spelling of Brien: SSA has recorded 432 Bryen and 3,593 Brien since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,591,435 babies since 1880, Bryen is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,017 babies recorded by SSA was a Bryen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Bryen
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 Bryen and names like it
- Compare Bryen and BrienBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBryen peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bryen since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Bryen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bryen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.