Bryony — girls' name

What the Data Says About Bryony

The Social Security Administration has registered 257 babies named Bryony between 1976 and 2022, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bryony currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 19 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bryony performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 68 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Bryony shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Bryony in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bryony 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 257 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.