Bryston
Bryston was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,425 among boys’ names; 1,163 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Bryston and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bryston by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bryston?
#5,425 among boys’ names, 2025
Bryston fell from #3,305 in 2015 to #5,425 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.7 to 10.0 per million.
61 babies in 2012, the peak
Bryston peaked in 2012, when 61 boys were given it, #2,172 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,425 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,466 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,765 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,103 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 34 | #3,366 | 19.4 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,585 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 49 | #2,628 | 27.3 |
| 2018 | 44 | #2,757 | 24.2 |
| 2017 | 52 | #2,454 | 28.1 |
| 2016 | 47 | #2,630 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #3,305 | 17.7 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,207 | 31.8 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,283 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,172 | 32.2 |
| 2011 | 54 | #2,352 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,737 | 22.9 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,406 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,492 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,924 | 19.3 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,392 | 15.1 |
| 2005 | 42 | #2,618 | 21.0 |
| 2004 | 40 | #2,642 | 20.2 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,846 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,691 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,864 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,224 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,855 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,862 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,610 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,034 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,713 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,493 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,731 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,906 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,376 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,426 | 4.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,828 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,019 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,881 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bryston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bryston has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bryston: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bryston, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,163 Americans ever recorded as Bryston. The median Bryston alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 854 people named Bryston (13 women and girls, 841 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 998 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 96 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 551 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 500 |
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,740 babies since 1880, Bryston is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 28 babies (61%), 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 Bryston
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 Bryston and names like it
- Compare Bryston and BristonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBryston peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bryston since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Bryston.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bryston alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.