Bryna — girls' name
1,441 babies named Bryna in U.S. Social Security records since 1926, with the highest year being 2003. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
17% of everyone ever named Bryna was born in this single decade.
40 babies were named Bryna in 2003 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Bryna
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,441 babies named Bryna between 1926 and 2021, spanning 96 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bryna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 40 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Bryna performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 252 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Bryna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 47 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Bryna in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Bryna in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,441 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Bryna at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Bryna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1926
- Peak year (2003)
- 40
- Annual births at peak — across 96 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
1,441 total births across 96 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2003 with 40 births in a single year.
Bryna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 252 births that decade — 17% of Bryna's all-time total
Bryna decade highlights
- Peak decade 252 births
- Runner-up 247 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Bryna's strongest decade
252 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 17% of all-time use.
Bryna by state
Where Bryna concentrates geographically — total births since 1926
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 47 | 3.3% |
| #2 | California | | 46 | 3.2% |
| #3 | Texas | | 9 | 0.6% |
| #4 | Ohio | | 7 | 0.5% |
47 of 1,441 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 3.3% of nationwide
- California 3.2% of nationwide
- Texas 0.6% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 3.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1926–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.