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Bryon

#5,424 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Brian

Bryon has been given to 14,737 babies in the U.S. since 1897. In 2025 it ranked #5,424 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 451 recorded.

Babies named Bryon, 2025

1 in 195,000

Bryon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bryon: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Brian

Irish

What Bryon means

Bryon is a variant of Brian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Bryon → Brian. The family’s proposed meaning is “hill, high or might, power”, recorded in the naming reference for Brian.

Origin, language, and formation

Bryon is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Brian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,720 boys were recorded with the name Bryon between 1897 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 451 in 1970; its best national rank was #381 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,036 in 2020 to #5,424 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,725 in 2015 to #5,424 in 2025.

In the United States, 17 girls were recorded with the name Bryon between 1971 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1983; its best national rank was #8,148 in 1983.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bryon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,424
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bryon 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bryon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bryons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bryon was born before 1975 — so the typical Bryon is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
14,321
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (3,767).

Is Bryon 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
+271
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,388
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,699
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.8%
Peak was 1970 (451)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#381
1973

Spellings of Bryon

Bryon is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 36.9% against Bryon's 0.46%.

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 Bryon is used

Across 1910–2025, Bryon was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 15,596 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 7,692
  2. 2Iowa1 in 8,333
  3. 3Oregon1 in 8,333
  4. 4Michigan1 in 9,091
  5. 5Washington1 in 9,091
  6. 6Indiana1 in 10,000
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 10,000
  8. 8Arizona1 in 11,111

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. Bryon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bryon around the world

Where Bryon 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 & Wales
    2007–2007
    #4,333
    in 2007
  • Scotland
    1983–1983
    #314
    in 1983
  • Canada
    1991–1994
    #1,526
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1945–1993
    #359
    in 1993

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.

Notable people named Bryon

People whose public names include Bryon, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Bryon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,424
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,388
Best rank ever
#381
1973
Peak year
1970
451 that year
First recorded
1897
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,720
Count in 2025
17

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,148
1983
Peak year
1983
7 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bryon

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

BrycenBryerBryantBryarBryceBrysenKeyonBrytonBrysonKenyonBrydenBrynBrylanZyonBryanCanyonBrynnBrylenBrylonJayonBrystonBrydonZiyonBryor

Names with a curve like Bryon

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Bryon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Bryon

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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