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Bryony

#13,502 in 2025Girls' name

Bryony plant

Bryony has been given to 263 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #13,502 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Bryony, 2025

1 in 553,000

Bryony over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bryony: meaning, origin, and history

Bryony plant

English

What Bryony means

Bryony takes the English plant bryony into personal-name use.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the bryony plant in the 19th century.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Bryony (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Bryony is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 263 girls were recorded with the name Bryony between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1977; its best national rank was #3,773 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,051 in 2020 to #13,502 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,837 in 2015 to #13,502 in 2025.

How common is Bryony?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,502
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bryony sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bryony. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bryonys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bryony was born before 1994 — so the typical Bryony is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
263
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (68).

Is Bryony 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,451
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,335
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.6%
Peak was 1977 (19)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,773
1977

Spellings of Bryony

Bryony is not the most common spelling — Brynn is, with 50.3% against Bryony's 0.44%.

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 Bryony is used

Across 1910–2025, Bryony was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Bryony has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bryony around the world

Where Bryony 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
    1996–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1975–2023
    #749
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2008
    #439
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1963–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bryony by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,502
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,451
Best rank ever
#3,773
1977
Peak year
1977
19 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
263
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Bryony

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

BrylinBryleiBrynliBrynjaBryndleBrynleaBryahBryerBryliBrynnlyBrynleiBrysonBryantBryleaBrionyBryellaBrylynnBrytonBrynlyBryleyBryssaBryannBryonaBryla

Sibling names for Bryony

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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