Bryar

#1,873 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Bryar has been given to 2,715 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #1,873 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 95 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% boys, 29% girls all-time.

Babies named Bryar, 2025

1 in 39,500

Bryar over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Bryar over time

In 2025, Bryar went to 44% girls and 56% boys.

19902025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

How common is Bryar?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,500
84 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 20,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,873
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,357 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bryar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,357 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bryar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bryars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bryar was born before 2013 — so the typical Bryar is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,940
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Choose a decade

2010s — 41.9% of all recorded uses (812).

Is Bryar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+100
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+200
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−82
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.4%
Peak was 2019 (95)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,669
2013

Spellings of Bryar

Bryar is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 41.2% against Bryar's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Bryar is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Bryar was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 27,326 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 5,556
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 5,556
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 11,111
  4. 4Alabama1 in 12,500
  5. 5Missouri1 in 12,500
  6. 6Indiana1 in 14,286
  7. 7Ohio1 in 20,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Bryar is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Bryar was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 543,118 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Indiana1 in —
  4. 4Missouri1 in —
  5. 5Nebraska1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bryar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bryar around the world

Where Bryar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #1,710
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1992–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bryar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,873
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 200
Best rank ever
#1,669
2013
Peak year
2019
95 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,940
Count in 2025
84

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,655
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 324
Best rank ever
#2,655
2025
Peak year
2025
65 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
775
Count in 2025
65

Names similar to Bryar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Bryar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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