Brysen
Last seen for girls in 2003 at #13,844 · #2,230 for boys in 2025, 63 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 262 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,680since 1983
Brysen over time
Rank among boys' names. Brysen has never cracked the top 800 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 | — | #2,230 | 63 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,190 | 66 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,875 | 84 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,447 | 125 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,442 | 125 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,225 | 153 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,112 | 177 | |
| 2018 | — | #860 | 256 | |
| 2017 | — | #843 | 262 | |
| 2016 | — | #878 | 249 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,006 | 203 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,032 | 196 | |
| 2013 | — | #948 | 210 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,065 | 178 | |
| 2011 | — | #902 | 225 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,183 | 152 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,381 | 123 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,613 | 97 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,669 | 91 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,724 | 81 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,801 | 72 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,857 | 66 | |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #1,845 | 64 |
| 2002 | — | #2,603 | 37 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,520 | 38 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,256 | 43 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,795 | 30 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,851 | 28 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,455 | 20 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,535 | 30 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,751 | 17 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,819 | 16 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,564 | 12 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,813 | 15 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,786 | 9 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,882 | 11 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,333 | 9 | |
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| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brysen! It came in at #6,238, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1984, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Brysen is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Maine#235 · 1 in 908
- South Carolina#401 · 1 in 2,120
- Mississippi#460 · 1 in 2,239
- Wisconsin#573 · 1 in 3,365
- Kentucky#578 · 1 in 3,635
Best ever in a state: #167 in Hawaii, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | #235 | 5 | 1 in 908 |
| South Carolina | #401 | 10 | 1 in 2,120 |
| Mississippi | #460 | 6 | 1 in 2,239 |
| Wisconsin | #573 | 8 | 1 in 3,365 |
| Kentucky | #578 | 6 | 1 in 3,635 |
| Pennsylvania | #586 | 14 | 1 in 4,231 |
| Tennessee | #602 | 10 | 1 in 3,620 |
| Maryland | #615 | 7 | 1 in 3,937 |
| Louisiana | #647 | 7 | 1 in 3,508 |
| Colorado | #650 | 7 | 1 in 3,937 |
| Indiana | #668 | 8 | 1 in 4,447 |
| Oklahoma | #708 | 5 | 1 in 4,054 |
| Ohio | #774 | 10 | 1 in 5,932 |
| Florida | #789 | 16 | 1 in 6,121 |
| Michigan | #903 | 7 | 1 in 6,820 |
| Illinois | #905 | 9 | 1 in 7,130 |
| North Carolina | #909 | 7 | 1 in 7,425 |
| Virginia | #969 | 5 | 1 in 8,323 |
| California | #1,140 | 18 | 1 in 12,427 |
| Texas | #1,192 | 15 | 1 in 12,348 |
| Georgia | #1,208 | 5 | 1 in 10,754 |
| New York | #1,579 | 6 | 1 in 16,666 |
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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 Brysen
- 40 spots since 2024 (#2,190 → #2,230)
- 1,005 spots since 2020 (#1,225 → #2,230)
- 1,224 spots since 2015 (#1,006 → #2,230)
- Biggest jump: 281 spots in 2011 (#1,183 → #902)
- Biggest drop: 252 spots in 2019 (#860 → #1,112)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2017 at #843 (262 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2016–2018
- Highest: 1 in 7,065 boys born in 2017 were named Brysen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,112 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 57.3% of all boys named Brysen (2,108) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 47 | #3,882 (1986) | #5,352 |
| 1990s | 197 | #2,535 (1996) | #3,601 |
| 2000s | 712 | #1,381 (2009) | #1,927 |
| 2010s | 2,108 | #843 (2017) | #983 |
| 2020s | 616 | #1,225 (2020) | #1,735 |
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.
Brysen in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 7,621 of them was named Brysen, which outranked 93.8% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).