Bryn
#2,017 for girls in 2025, 94 births · #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
Given to girls 85.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 370 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,532since 1949
Bryn 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 | #2,017 | 94 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #2,099 | 91 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #2,076 | 93 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #1,856 | 109 | #5,215 | 18 |
| 2021 | #1,524 | 138 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #1,763 | 113 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #1,483 | 148 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #1,338 | 168 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #1,625 | 133 | #5,526 | 16 |
| 2016 | #1,325 | 180 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #1,162 | 217 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #966 | 276 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #803 | 337 | #5,659 | 15 |
| 2012 | #779 | 353 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #744 | 370 | #5,200 | 17 |
| 2010 | #1,092 | 229 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | #1,478 | 157 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #1,354 | 179 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #1,317 | 185 | #7,094 | 11 |
| 2006 | #1,252 | 192 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #1,112 | 213 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #912 | 265 | #4,264 | 20 |
| 2003 | #1,060 | 212 | #3,732 | 23 |
| 2002 | #1,100 | 192 | #4,044 | 20 |
| 2001 | #1,193 | 171 | #3,721 | 22 |
| 2000 | #1,029 | 204 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #975 | 212 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #1,285 | 140 | #2,851 | 28 |
| 1997 | #1,595 | 100 | #3,601 | 19 |
| 1996 | #1,337 | 127 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #1,474 | 108 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1994 | #1,634 | 92 | #3,469 | 19 |
| 1993 | #1,538 | 101 | #2,347 | 32 |
| 1992 | #1,782 | 81 | #2,214 | 34 |
| 1991 | #1,564 | 98 | #2,019 | 37 |
| 1990 | #1,755 | 83 | #1,755 | 45 |
| 1989 | #1,629 | 85 | #1,793 | 42 |
| 1988 | #1,704 | 75 | #2,197 | 28 |
| 1987 | #1,762 | 67 | #1,974 | 31 |
| 1986 | #1,816 | 62 | #1,588 | 41 |
| 1985 | #1,727 | 66 | #2,019 | 28 |
| 1984 | #1,565 | 72 | #1,933 | 28 |
| 1983 | #1,689 | 65 | #1,955 | 27 |
| 1982 | #1,474 | 81 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | #1,641 | 70 | #2,204 | 23 |
| 1980 | #1,605 | 72 | #2,536 | 19 |
| 1979 | #1,461 | 82 | #2,465 | 19 |
| 1978 | #2,269 | 40 | #2,669 | 16 |
| 1977 | #2,423 | 36 | #2,665 | 16 |
| 1976 | #2,060 | 42 | #3,095 | 12 |
| 1975 | #2,169 | 39 | #2,134 | 21 |
| 1974 | #2,683 | 27 | #2,674 | 14 |
| 1973 | #2,223 | 35 | #1,982 | 21 |
| 1972 | #2,747 | 25 | #2,418 | 15 |
| 1971 | #2,874 | 24 | #2,052 | 20 |
| 1970 | #2,938 | 23 | #1,658 | 27 |
| 1969 | #3,012 | 20 | #2,130 | 16 |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 | #2,311 | 13 |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 | #2,030 | 15 |
| 1966 | #3,148 | 16 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #3,050 | 17 | #1,918 | 17 |
| 1964 | #3,692 | 13 | #2,409 | 12 |
| 1963 | #2,960 | 18 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1962 | #3,293 | 15 | #1,962 | 17 |
| 1961 | #2,411 | 25 | #2,409 | 12 |
| 1960 | #2,573 | 22 | #2,423 | 12 |
| 1959 | #3,436 | 13 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #3,085 | 15 | #2,265 | 13 |
| 1957 | #2,926 | 16 | #3,552 | 6 |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 | #2,969 | 8 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | #2,964 | 8 |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 | #3,714 | 5 |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,612 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bryn! It came in at #3,612, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1955, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Bryn is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#595 · 1 in 4,531
- Indiana#653 · 1 in 6,423
- Pennsylvania#949 · 1 in 11,536
- Texas#1,676 · 1 in 21,478
- California#1,950 · 1 in 26,890
Best ever in a state: #156 in North Dakota, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #595 | 6 | 1 in 4,531 |
| Indiana | #653 | 5 | 1 in 6,423 |
| Pennsylvania | #949 | 6 | 1 in 11,536 |
| Texas | #1,676 | 6 | 1 in 21,478 |
| California | #1,950 | 8 | 1 in 26,890 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Bryn
- 82 spots since 2024 (#2,099 → #2,017)
- 254 spots since 2020 (#1,763 → #2,017)
- 855 spots since 2015 (#1,162 → #2,017)
- Biggest jump: 348 spots in 2011 (#1,092 → #744)
- Biggest drop: 200 spots in 2005 (#912 → #1,112)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 2011 at #744 (370 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2011–2014
- Highest: 1 in 4,754 girls born in 2011 were named Bryn (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,099 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 32.0% of all girls named Bryn (2,411) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1970, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 9 | #3,612 (1949) | #3,612 |
| 1950s | 99 | #2,926 (1957) | #4,001 |
| 1960s | 175 | #2,411 (1961) | #3,114 |
| 1970s | 373 | #1,461 (1979) | #2,385 |
| 1980s | 715 | #1,474 (1982) | #1,661 |
| 1990s | 1,142 | #975 (1999) | #1,494 |
| 2000s | 1,970 | #912 (2004) | #1,181 |
| 2010s | 2,411 | #744 (2011) | #1,132 |
| 2020s | 638 | #1,524 (2021) | #1,889 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bryn in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 25,950 of them was named Bryn, which outranked 86.7% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,748Lyndsie68
- #1,748Makayla68
- #1,748Tiffiny68
- #1,762Bryn67
- #1,762Aleah67
- #1,762Cristine67
- #1,762Daria67
- #1,776Blaire66
- #1,776Denae66
- #1,776Donielle66
Tied with 13 names at #1,762; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 60,225 of them was named Bryn, which outranked 75.8% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,938Sloan32
- #1,938Tai32
- #1,938Ward32
- #1,974Bryn31
- #1,974Antron31
- #1,974Arian31
- #1,974Ashwin31
- #2,020Alphonzo30
- #2,020Antjuan30
- #2,020Barret30
Tied with 45 names at #1,974; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.