Bryden
#3,590 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bryden has been given to 1,968 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #3,590 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 149 recorded.
Babies named Bryden, 2025
1 in 107,000
Bryden over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bryden?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 107,000
- 31 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 55,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,590
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 74,127 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bryden sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bryden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brydens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bryden was born before 2012 — so the typical Bryden is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 53.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,940
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 53.1% of all recorded uses (1,031).
Is Bryden 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
- +408
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,240
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,948
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.32×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 20.8%
- Peak was 2013 (149)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.8% average annual change
Spellings of Bryden
Bryden is not the most common spelling — Bryan is, with 23.3% against Bryden's 0.12%.
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 Bryden is used
Across 1910–2025, Bryden was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 179,706 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
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. Bryden has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bryden around the world
Where Bryden 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.
- England & Wales1996–2025#5,137in 2025
- Scotland1992–2010#548in 2010
- France2013–2023#5,093in 2023
- Canada1991–2024#1,817in 2024
- South Australia1961–2010#754in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bryden by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Bryden
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bryden
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.