Brysen
#2,233 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brysen has been given to 3,686 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #2,233 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 262 recorded.
Babies named Brysen, 2025
1 in 52,600
Brysen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Brysen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 52,600
- 63 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 27,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,233
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 36,476 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brysen 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 36,476 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brysen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brysens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brysen was born before 2014 — so the typical Brysen is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 57.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,680
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 57.3% of all recorded uses (2,108).
Is Brysen 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
- −39
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,008
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,226
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.31×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 24.0%
- Peak was 2017 (262)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.5% average annual change
Spellings of Brysen
Brysen is not the most common spelling — Bryan is, with 43.9% against Brysen's 0.41%.
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 Brysen is used
Across 2016–2025, Brysen was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 12,975 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).
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.
Brysen around the world
Where Brysen 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.
- Canada2000–2023#3,103in 2023
- South Australia2008–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Brysen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Brysen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Brysen
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Brysen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Brysen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.