Brycen
Last seen for girls in 2016 at #16,215 · #867 for boys in 2025, 276 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 999 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 13,986since 1976
Brycen over time
Rank among boys' names. Brycen has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #867 | 276 | |
| 2024 | — | #751 | 340 | |
| 2023 | — | #793 | 316 | |
| 2022 | — | #722 | 363 | |
| 2021 | — | #669 | 403 | |
| 2020 | — | #608 | 450 | |
| 2019 | — | #534 | 534 | |
| 2018 | — | #502 | 572 | |
| 2017 | — | #484 | 605 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #476 | 644 |
| 2015 | — | #451 | 671 | |
| 2014 | — | #403 | 772 | |
| 2013 | — | #374 | 815 | |
| 2012 | — | #338 | 931 | |
| 2011 | — | #318 | 999 | |
| 2010 | — | #365 | 807 | |
| 2009 | — | #457 | 596 | |
| 2008 | — | #482 | 574 | |
| 2007 | — | #582 | 440 | |
| 2006 | — | #591 | 415 | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #639 | 340 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #656 | 310 |
| 2003 | — | #775 | 225 | |
| 2002 | — | #735 | 238 | |
| 2001 | — | #730 | 238 | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #791 | 206 |
| 1999 | — | #956 | 151 | |
| 1998 | — | #957 | 145 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,075 | 118 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,188 | 96 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,648 | 55 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,664 | 54 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,969 | 41 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,778 | 47 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,983 | 38 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,058 | 20 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,784 | 22 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,765 | 20 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,468 | 22 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,684 | 19 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,599 | 12 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,459 | 12 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,411 | 12 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
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| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brycen! It came in at #5,587, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Brycen is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#251 · 1 in 956
- West Virginia#263 · 1 in 925
- Alabama#361 · 1 in 1,459
- Louisiana#370 · 1 in 1,459
- Tennessee#425 · 1 in 1,881
Best ever in a state: #94 in West Virginia, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #251 | 12 | 1 in 956 |
| West Virginia | #263 | 7 | 1 in 925 |
| Alabama | #361 | 15 | 1 in 1,459 |
| Louisiana | #370 | 14 | 1 in 1,459 |
| Tennessee | #425 | 19 | 1 in 1,881 |
| Connecticut | #488 | 5 | 1 in 2,647 |
| Maryland | #515 | 9 | 1 in 2,581 |
| Missouri | #567 | 9 | 1 in 2,983 |
| Georgia | #586 | 17 | 1 in 2,964 |
| Pennsylvania | #586 | 15 | 1 in 3,468 |
| Kentucky | #596 | 6 | 1 in 3,302 |
| Florida | #608 | 26 | 1 in 3,624 |
| Michigan | #647 | 11 | 1 in 3,651 |
| Virginia | #667 | 10 | 1 in 3,725 |
| Ohio | #669 | 13 | 1 in 4,037 |
| New York | #675 | 21 | 1 in 4,084 |
| Wisconsin | #782 | 5 | 1 in 4,709 |
| North Carolina | #807 | 10 | 1 in 5,072 |
| Texas | #811 | 33 | 1 in 5,376 |
| Illinois | #1,285 | 5 | 1 in 10,032 |
| California | #1,605 | 10 | 1 in 17,987 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Brycen
- 116 spots since 2024 (#751 → #867)
- 259 spots since 2020 (#608 → #867)
- 416 spots since 2015 (#451 → #867)
- Biggest jump: 165 spots in 2000 (#956 → #791)
- Biggest drop: 116 spots in 2025 (#751 → #867)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2011 at #318 (999 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1998–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,901 boys born in 2011 were named Brycen (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,189 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 52.6% of all boys named Brycen (7,350) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,587 (1976) | #5,587 |
| 1980s | 136 | #2,468 (1987) | #3,370 |
| 1990s | 765 | #956 (1999) | #1,628 |
| 2000s | 3,582 | #457 (2009) | #644 |
| 2010s | 7,350 | #318 (2011) | #425 |
| 2020s | 2,148 | #608 (2020) | #735 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brycen in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 5,413 of them was named Brycen, which outranked 94.4% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.