Brydon
#12,331 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brydon has been given to 539 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #12,331 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 34 recorded.
Babies named Brydon, 2025
1 in 663,000
Brydon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Brydon?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,331
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brydon 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brydon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brydons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brydon was born before 2009 — so the typical Brydon is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 42.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 83.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 539
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (227).
Is Brydon 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
- +293
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,733
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −7,422
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.26×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 14.7%
- Peak was 2014 (34)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.2% average annual change
Spellings of Brydon
Brydon is not the most common spelling — Brandon is, with 46.5% against Brydon's 0.03%.
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 Brydon is used
Across 1910–2025, Brydon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,149,910 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Ohio1 in —
- 3Texas1 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. Brydon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Brydon around the world
Where Brydon 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 & Wales2001–2021#4,789in 2021
- Scotland1985–2008#638in 2008
- Canada1991–2016#2,748in 2016
- South Australia1964–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Brydon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Brydon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brydon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.