Bryden
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306 · #3,583 for boys in 2025, 31 births
Given to boys 98.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2013 · 149 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,940since 1977
Bryden over time
Rank among boys' names. Bryden has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #3,583 | 31 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,986 | 27 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,883 | 28 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #3,691 | 30 |
| 2021 | — | #2,972 | 41 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,347 | 57 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,339 | 58 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,122 | 66 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,883 | 77 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,799 | 84 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,641 | 97 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,306 | 135 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,203 | 149 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,490 | 108 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,309 | 130 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,341 | 127 | |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #1,390 | 122 |
| 2008 | — | #2,161 | 62 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,890 | 75 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,659 | 44 | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #2,493 | 45 |
| 2004 | — | #2,238 | 51 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,847 | 34 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #3,095 | 29 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #3,143 | 28 |
| 2000 | — | #3,219 | 26 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,591 | 21 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,017 | 26 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,160 | 23 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,022 | 16 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,109 | 11 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,360 | 10 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
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| 1990 | — | #5,823 | 8 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
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| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
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| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bryden! It came in at #5,845, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Bryden is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#1,022 · 1 in 10,739
- Illinois#1,088 · 1 in 10,679
- California#2,532 · 1 in 50,834
Best ever in a state: #509 in Kentucky, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #1,022 | 6 | 1 in 10,739 |
| Illinois | #1,088 | 7 | 1 in 10,679 |
| California | #2,532 | 5 | 1 in 50,834 |
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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 Bryden
- 403 spots since 2024 (#3,986 → #3,583)
- 1,236 spots since 2020 (#2,347 → #3,583)
- 1,942 spots since 2015 (#1,641 → #3,583)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2013 at #1,203 (149 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,695 boys born in 2013 were named Bryden (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,099 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 53.1% of all boys named Bryden (1,031) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,845 (1977) | #5,845 |
| 1980s | 42 | #5,332 (1986) | #5,964 |
| 1990s | 132 | #3,017 (1998) | #4,682 |
| 2000s | 516 | #1,390 (2009) | #2,514 |
| 2010s | 1,031 | #1,203 (2013) | #1,643 |
| 2020s | 214 | #2,347 (2020) | #3,410 |
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.
Bryden in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 32,906 of them was named Bryden, which outranked 85.2% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,140Tayton63
- #2,140Tremayne63
- #2,140Tymir63
- #2,161Bryden62
- #2,161Axton62
- #2,161Brannon62
- #2,161Brylan62
- #2,186Alain61
- #2,186Andon61
- #2,186Avian61
Tied with 24 names at #2,161; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.