How Many People Are Named Bryon?

12,815

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

About 1 in 26,670 people in the US has this name

Based on 14,737 babies named Bryon in Social Security records from 1897 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,114

💎 Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#849

See the top 100

Peak Year

1970

451 births

Trend

→

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 Bryon in English. Counting Bryon and these spellings together, about 1,402,978 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.1%
Male
99.9%

Almost all of the babies given the name Bryon (99.9%) were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Bryon alive today is about 47 years old, and 65% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 37 and 58 in 2025.

Under 30 1,800
14%
30 to 59 8,338
65.1%
60 and over 2,677
20.9%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Bryon first appears in the records in 1897 and was given most often in 1970, to 451 babies. In 2025, 17 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1897 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Bryon has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #381, in 1973. In 2025 it ranked #5,424.

Boys
Rank in 2025#5,424
Best rank#381 (1973)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#411 in the 1970s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Bryon were born in California than in any other state: about 1,248 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Bryon was given 1.9 times as often in Iowa, 1.9 times in Ohio and 1.8 times in Oregon.

California 1,248
Ohio 918
Pennsylvania 621
New York 616
Michigan 604
Illinois 511
Texas 442
Indiana 364
Wisconsin 305
North Carolina 291
Florida 287
Missouri 287
Washington 265
Iowa 230
Virginia 204
Minnesota 189
Arizona 175
Oregon 168
Tennessee 154
New Jersey 152
Colorado 151
Georgia 123
Kentucky 123
Oklahoma 121
Louisiana 119
Kansas 105
Utah 103
Nebraska 94
South Carolina 87
Maryland 73
Arkansas 59
Alabama 53
Massachusetts 41
West Virginia 35
North Dakota 27
Montana 25
Connecticut 25
South Dakota 19
New Mexico 18
Idaho 17
Mississippi 14
Maine 4
Wyoming 4

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