Bryon

Where Bryon comes from

The dictionaries list Bryon as a given name — a male given name from Irish, a nonstandard spelling of Brian — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Irish
Along the way
  1. 1897
    First appearance
    #852 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Bryon Russell born
    American basketball player
  3. 1973
    Peak, #381
    407 babies named Bryon — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1988
    Bryon Wilson born
    freestyle skier
  5. 1992
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #770.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Irish, a nonstandard spelling of Brian.
Namesakes
  • Bryon Wilson · freestyle skier, born 1988
  • Bryon Russell · American basketball player, born 1970
  • Bryon Allen · American basketball player, born 1992
  • Bryon Wilfert · Canadian politician, born 1952
  • Bryon Baltimore · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1952

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.