Bryna
Bryna was last recorded in 2021, when 13 babies were given it; 1,441 Americans have been recorded with it between 1926 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,290 Americans named Bryna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 23 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bryna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bryna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,106, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 2003, the peak
Bryna peaked in 2003, when 40 girls were given it, #3,537 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | #8,106 | 7.9 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,080 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,105 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,895 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,224 | 11.3 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,692 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,077 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,822 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,283 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,826 | 16.5 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 16 | #7,592 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,291 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,160 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,868 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,396 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,131 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,720 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,537 | 21.9 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,108 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,392 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,169 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,254 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,652 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,209 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,449 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,540 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,538 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,687 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,873 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,515 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,391 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,876 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,355 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,759 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,365 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,711 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 29 | #2,996 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,442 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,905 | 18.3 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,263 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,226 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,349 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,791 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,010 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,735 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 24 | #2,977 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,300 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,133 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,108 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,804 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,088 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,091 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,519 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,067 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,757 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,226 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,536 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,949 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,678 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,281 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,480 | 4.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,475 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,575 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,044 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,803 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,713 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,983 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,164 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,512 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,922 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,860 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,846 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,468 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,484 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,422 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,413 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,878 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,322 | 11.1 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,030 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,315 | 11.4 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,757 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,483 | 6.6 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,959 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,408 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,091 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,650 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,367 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,940 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bryna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bryna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bryna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bryna, and how old are they?
1,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 1,441 Americans ever recorded as Bryna. The median Bryna alive today is 37 years old; half are between 23 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 1,278 people named Bryna (1,265 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,314 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 46 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 118 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 275 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 365 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 372 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 108 |
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 133,500 babies since 1880, Bryna is the seventh most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 613 babies recorded by SSA was a Bryna (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 Bryna
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 Bryna and names like it
- Compare Bryna and BrianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBryna peaked in 2003.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bryna since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Bryna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bryna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.