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 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kentucky#585 · 1 in 3,272
- Missouri#687 · 1 in 4,071
- Indiana#737 · 1 in 4,638
- Minnesota#787 · 1 in 5,000
- Ohio#1,000 · 1 in 7,784
Best ever in a state: #227 in North Dakota, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #585 | 6 | 1 in 3,272 |
| Missouri | #687 | 7 | 1 in 4,071 |
| Indiana | #737 | 7 | 1 in 4,638 |
| Minnesota | #787 | 5 | 1 in 5,000 |
| Ohio | #1,000 | 7 | 1 in 7,784 |
| Illinois | #1,309 | 5 | 1 in 10,929 |
| Florida | #1,372 | 7 | 1 in 12,887 |
| Texas | #1,799 | 8 | 1 in 21,156 |
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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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 59,872 of them was named Bryer, which outranked 72.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,648Zamari28
- #4,648Zenovia28
- #4,648Zyaire28
- #4,757Bryer27
- #4,757Acelyn27
- #4,757Adalaide27
- #4,757Allure27
- #4,880Adaliah26
- #4,880Aeryn26
- #4,880Ahsoka26
Tied with 122 names at #4,757; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 19,179 of them was named Bryer, which outranked 87.8% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,707Ramses91
- #1,707Shalom91
- #1,707Woodrow91
- #1,716Bryer90
- #1,716Amado90
- #1,716Cordell90
- #1,716Cristofer90
- #1,731Ashtyn89
- #1,731Braxten89
- #1,731Eiden89
Tied with 14 names at #1,716; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.