Bryer
#3,211 for girls in 2025, 49 births · #703 for boys in 2025, 382 births
Given to boys 88.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 382 births
- Debut · boys
- 14 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,600since 1990
Bryer over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,211 | 49 | #703 | 382 |
| 2024 | #4,294 | 33 | #869 | 278 |
| 2023 | #5,549 | 22 | #1,485 | 121 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | #1,678 | 102 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 | #1,982 | 75 |
| 2020 | #4,757 | 27 | #1,716 | 90 |
| 2019 | #5,449 | 23 | #1,658 | 97 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #1,565 | 107 |
| 2017 | #6,044 | 20 | #1,681 | 94 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | #1,739 | 89 |
| 2015 | #5,653 | 23 | #1,416 | 121 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #1,597 | 98 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #1,568 | 99 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #1,676 | 91 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #2,105 | 63 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #1,816 | 80 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #2,050 | 67 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #2,291 | 57 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #2,304 | 56 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,348 | 53 |
| 2005 | — | #3,319 | 30 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,788 | 37 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,847 | 34 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,603 | 37 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,410 | 25 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,640 | 22 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,834 | 19 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,651 | 31 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,455 | 20 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,911 | 25 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,100 | 22 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,215 | 21 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,020 | 15 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,564 | 12 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,636 | 16 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,971 | 14 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bryer! It came in at #3,971, and was given to 14 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1993, when fewer than 17 boys a year got the name.
Where Bryer is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oklahoma#501 · 1 in 2,417
- Missouri#840 · 1 in 6,121
- Ohio#906 · 1 in 7,295
- Illinois#1,322 · 1 in 12,386
- Texas#1,770 · 1 in 22,021
Best ever in a state: #227 in North Dakota, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #501 | 8 | 1 in 2,417 |
| Missouri | #840 | 5 | 1 in 6,121 |
| Ohio | #906 | 8 | 1 in 7,295 |
| Illinois | #1,322 | 5 | 1 in 12,386 |
| Texas | #1,770 | 8 | 1 in 22,021 |
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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 Bryer
- 166 spots since 2024 (#869 → #703)
- 1,013 spots since 2020 (#1,716 → #703)
- 713 spots since 2015 (#1,416 → #703)
- Biggest jump: 616 spots in 2024 (#1,485 → #869)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2025 at #703 (382 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2024–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,471 boys born in 2025 were named Bryer (0.02%)
- 40.3% of all boys named Bryer (1,048) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 195 | #2,651 (1998) | #3,536 |
| 2000s | 418 | #2,050 (2009) | #2,760 |
| 2010s | 939 | #1,416 (2015) | #1,682 |
| 2020s | 1,048 | #703 (2025) | #1,406 |
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.
Bryer in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 86,323 of them was named Bryer, which outranked 67.2% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,821Zeta21
- #5,821Zoii21
- #5,821Zunaira21
- #6,044Bryer20
- #6,044Aaira20
- #6,044Aamirah20
- #6,044Aaron20
- #6,287Aadvika19
- #6,287Aaleiya19
- #6,287Aamina19
Tied with 242 names at #6,044; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 19,691 of them was named Bryer, which outranked 88.2% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,661Maxon95
- #1,661Mickey95
- #1,661Sulaiman95
- #1,681Bryer94
- #1,681Alessio94
- #1,681Amauri94
- #1,681Brighton94
- #1,695Ayman93
- #1,695Britton93
- #1,695Cayde93
Tied with 13 names at #1,681; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.