Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1883–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.
The high point was 1985: 8,788 births recorded as Bryan. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1883. Bryan has spent 52 years inside the national top 100.
As of 2025 the name sits at #336, with 1,005 births that year. Compared with 2015, births are down 60%. Year on year the rank dropped by 29.
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.
How many people are named Bryan?
Roughly 358,000 Bryans are alive in the US right now. That is out of 391,306 recorded births since 1880.
This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is
multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table.
How the estimate works.
How old is the average Bryan?
The typical living Bryan is 39 years old. Most living bearers were born in the 1980s. By the site’s era rules that makes Bryan a late 20th-century perennial name.
Your Bryan
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.
Where Bryan is most common
The name is concentrated in Massachusetts, at 2.4× the national rate. Florida, Maryland and New Jersey follow.
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Bryan is over-represented, 2016–2025.
The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.