Bryer
#704 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bryer has been given to 2,946 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #704 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 382 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.
Babies named Bryer, 2025
1 in 8,680
Bryer 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Bryer over time
In 2025, Bryer went to 11% girls and 89% boys.
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 Bryer?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 8,680
- 382 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 4,470
- 0.02% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #704
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 6,017 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bryer 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 6,017 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bryer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bryers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bryer was born before 2017 — so the typical Bryer is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 40.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,600
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 40.3% of all recorded uses (1,048).
Is Bryer 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
- +165
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,013
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +713
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.16×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (382)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.0% average annual change
Spellings of Bryer
Bryer is not the most common spelling — Bryan is, with 53.3% against Bryer's 0.36%.
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 Bryer is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Bryer was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 2,941 boys, against 1 in 14,252 across all states with data. It was least common in California (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.
Where Bryer is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Bryer was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,023,410 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Bryer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bryer around the world
Where Bryer 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.
- Canada1992–2024#1,390in 2024
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Bryer by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Bryer
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Bryer
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Bryer, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Bryer
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.