Bryant

Where Bryant comes from

The dictionaries list Bryant as a given name — a male given name transferred from the surname — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #442 among boys — 16 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1889
    Bryant Washburn born
    American actor
  3. 1986
    Bryant Dunston born
    Armenian basketball player
  4. 1988
    Peak, #164
    1,714 babies named Bryant — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #332.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Bryant Dunston · Armenian basketball player, born 1986
  • Bryant Washburn · American actor, 1889–1963
  • Bryant Reeves · American basketball player, born 1973
  • Bryant Jennings · boxer, born 1984
  • Bryant Gumbel · American television journalist and sportscaster, born 1948

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.