How Many People Are Named Brion?

2,540

people named Brion are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 134,560 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,896 babies named Brion in Social Security records from 1945 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,766

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#2,145

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Peak Year

1957

87 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: BRIE-ən
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of BRIAN.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Brion in English. Counting Brion and these spellings together, about 1,402,978 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
3.4%
Male
96.6%

Of the babies given the name Brion, 3.4% were girls and 96.6% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1950s: 0% of the babies were girls then and 5.6% in the 2010s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Brion alive today is about 43 years old, and 52% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 30 and 57 in 2025.

Under 30 633
24.9%
30 to 59 1,334
52.5%
60 and over 574
22.6%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Brion first appears in the records in 1945 and was given most often in 1957, to 87 babies. In 2025, 9 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1945 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Brion has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #803, in 1957. In 2025 it ranked #8,357.

Boys
Rank in 2025#8,357
Best rank#803 (1957)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,070 in the 1970s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Brion alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Brion were born in California than in any other state: about 99 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Brion was given 3.4 times as often in Pennsylvania, 2.3 times in Illinois and 2.2 times in New York.

California 99
Pennsylvania 92
New York 79
Illinois 63
Ohio 48
Florida 47
Michigan 25
Texas 18
Louisiana 15
Wisconsin 7
Massachusetts 7
Virginia 5
North Carolina 5

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