Bryton
Bryton was given to 29 boys in 2025, #3,770 among boys’ names; 3,231 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,180 Americans named Bryton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bryton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bryton?
#3,770 among boys’ names, 2025
Bryton fell from #1,876 in 2015 to #3,770 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 40.7 to 17.0 per million.
162 babies in 2006, the peak
Bryton peaked in 2006, when 162 babies were given it (154 boys, #1,124 among boys’ names). The 29 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #3,770 | 17.0 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,053 | 23.2 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,233 | 21.6 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,630 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,079 | 22.3 |
| 2020 | 39 | #2,984 | 22.6 |
| 2019 | 40 | #2,998 | 22.3 |
| 2018 | 45 | #2,713 | 24.8 |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,093 | 35.7 |
| 2016 | 73 | #1,977 | 38.5 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #1,876 | 40.7 |
| 2014 | 77 | #1,886 | 40.1 |
| 2013 | 107 | #1,511 | 56.6 |
| 2012 | 128 | #1,330 | 67.5 |
| 2011 | 130 | #1,311 | 68.4 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,384 | 63.1 |
| 2009 | 142 | #1,251 | 71.6 |
| 2008 | 120 | #1,408 | 58.8 |
| 2007 | 144 | #1,225 | 69.4 |
| 2006 | 154 | #1,124 | 74.9 |
| 2005 | 128 | #1,233 | 64.1 |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,383 | 51.9 |
| 2003 | 85 | #1,512 | 43.0 |
| 2002 | 71 | #1,658 | 36.6 |
| 2001 | 84 | #1,457 | 43.2 |
| 2000 | 84 | #1,462 | 42.8 |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,339 | 46.4 |
| 1998 | 52 | #1,871 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,271 | 47.7 |
| 1996 | 98 | #1,175 | 51.7 |
| 1995 | 130 | #968 | 68.3 |
| 1994 | 126 | #984 | 65.2 |
| 1993 | 64 | #1,456 | 32.6 |
| 1992 | 66 | #1,396 | 33.0 |
| 1991 | 81 | #1,230 | 40.1 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,186 | 6.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,419 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,187 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,882 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bryton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,231 Americans recorded as Bryton, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 29 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bryton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bryton, and how old are they?
3,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,231 Americans ever recorded as Bryton. The median Bryton alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,661 people named Bryton (190 women and girls, 2,471 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,959 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 605 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 756 |
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 Bryton born?
The states with the most babies named Bryton are Texas, Utah and California, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 238 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Utah | 185 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| California | 114 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 58 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 52 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 52 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 37 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 35 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Iowa | 34 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Bryton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bryton is most over-represented in Utah: since 1985 it was given 4.2 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 Bryton 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 12,267 babies since 1880, Bryton is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 104 babies (28%), again the second 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 Bryton
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 Bryton and names like it
- Compare Bryton and BrittonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBryton peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bryton since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Bryton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bryton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.