Bryer
Bryer is given to both girls and boys: 49 girls and 382 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,218 among girls’ names and #704 among boys’, #1,305 among all names counting both); 2,946 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,920 Americans named Bryer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 2 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bryer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bryer?
#704 among boys’ names, 2025
Bryer rose from #1,417 in 2015 to #704 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.06 to 0.22 per 1,000.
431 babies in 2025, the peak
Bryer peaked in 2025, when 431 babies were given it (382 boys, #704 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 278 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,218 | 382 | #704 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,308 | 278 | #869 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,583 | 121 | #1,485 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,340 | 102 | #1,679 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,705 | 75 | #1,983 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,778 | 90 | #1,717 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,464 | 97 | #1,660 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,848 | 107 | #1,567 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,084 | 94 | #1,684 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,464 | 89 | #1,742 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,687 | 121 | #1,417 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,374 | 98 | #1,597 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,176 | 99 | #1,569 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,748 | 91 | #1,676 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,170 | 63 | #2,108 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,483 | 80 | #1,817 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,826 | 67 | #2,053 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,100 | 57 | #2,296 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,829 | 56 | #2,310 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,458 | 53 | #2,351 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 30 | #3,322 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 37 | #2,788 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 34 | #2,849 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 37 | #2,603 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 25 | #3,423 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 22 | #3,646 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 19 | #3,854 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 31 | #2,657 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 20 | #3,462 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 25 | #2,926 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 22 | #3,105 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 21 | #3,224 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 15 | #4,035 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 12 | #4,591 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 16 | #3,654 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 14 | #3,990 |
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 Bryer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,946 Americans recorded as Bryer, 12% are girls and 88% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bryer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bryer, and how old are they?
2,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,946 Americans ever recorded as Bryer. The median Bryer alive today is 9 years old; half are between 2 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,599 people named Bryer (195 women and girls, 1,404 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,742 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 761 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,040 |
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 Bryer born?
The states with the most babies named Bryer are Texas, Missouri and Pennsylvania, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 46 | #709 | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 21 | #319 | 2.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #509 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 19 | #514 | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 18 | #432 | 0.8× |
| Kentucky | 18 | #297 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 17 | #580 | 1.4× |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #359 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 15 | #651 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 14 | #965 | 0.2× |
Where Bryer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bryer is most over-represented in Missouri: since 1990 it was given 2.0 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 Bryer 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 6,866 babies since 1880, Bryer is the most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 431 of their 632 babies (68%), 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 Bryer
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 Bryer and names like it
- Compare Bryer and BryarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBryer peaked in 2025.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bryer since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Bryer.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bryer alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.