Brion
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #15,682 · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 96.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1957 · 87 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,807since 1945
Brion over time
Rank among boys' names. Brion has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,241 | 18 | |
| 2023 | — | #8,921 | 8 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,874 | 15 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,089 | 11 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,235 | 17 | |
| 2019 | — | #6,406 | 13 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #5,320 | 17 |
| 2017 | — | #5,526 | 16 | |
| 2016 | — | #6,053 | 14 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,545 | 21 | |
| 2014 | — | #5,066 | 18 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,463 | 21 | |
| 2012 | — | #5,035 | 18 | |
| 2011 | — | #6,256 | 13 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | — | #4,160 | 24 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,901 | 19 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,262 | 13 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,675 | 19 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,631 | 18 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,005 | 22 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #4,276 | 19 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #3,349 | 26 |
| 2001 | — | #3,617 | 23 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,864 | 31 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,722 | 31 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #2,157 | 42 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #2,449 | 33 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #2,218 | 37 |
| 1995 | — | #2,026 | 41 | |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | #1,822 | 47 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,907 | 43 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #1,981 | 40 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #1,557 | 55 |
| 1990 | — | #1,702 | 47 | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #1,766 | 43 |
| 1988 | — | #1,849 | 36 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,057 | 29 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,694 | 37 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,916 | 30 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,320 | 50 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,748 | 32 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,774 | 32 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,726 | 33 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,569 | 38 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,206 | 57 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,134 | 60 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,198 | 54 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,111 | 58 | |
| 1975 | — | #984 | 69 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,091 | 57 | |
| 1973 | — | #962 | 70 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,050 | 59 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,047 | 60 | |
| 1970 | — | #979 | 68 | |
| 1969 | — | #903 | 71 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,366 | 32 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,652 | 22 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,450 | 28 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,254 | 37 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,327 | 35 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,305 | 36 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,121 | 47 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,196 | 44 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,193 | 43 | |
| 1959 | — | #919 | 69 | |
| 1958 | — | #892 | 71 | |
| 1957 | — | #803 | 87 | |
| 1956 | — | #934 | 64 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,022 | 54 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,169 | 41 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,123 | 43 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,582 | 23 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,139 | 40 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,313 | 30 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,498 | 10 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,884 | 15 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,743 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brion! It came in at #2,743, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1949, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Brion is popular in 1977
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#532 · 1 in 10,598
- Ohio#684 · 1 in 15,497
- Illinois#714 · 1 in 11,623
Best ever in a state: #334 in Massachusetts, 1956.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #532 | 7 | 1 in 10,598 |
| Ohio | #684 | 5 | 1 in 15,497 |
| Illinois | #714 | 7 | 1 in 11,623 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Brion
- 3,002 spots since 2024 (#5,241 → #8,243)
- 3,008 spots since 2020 (#5,235 → #8,243)
- 3,698 spots since 2015 (#4,545 → #8,243)
- Biggest jump: 463 spots in 1969 (#1,366 → #903)
- Biggest drop: 274 spots in 1960 (#919 → #1,193)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1957 at #803 (87 births)
- Births halved by 1960, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1956–1959
- Highest: 1 in 22,265 boys born in 1973 were named Brion (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #803 in 1957, was only 1 in 24,796 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 21.8% of all boys named Brion (612) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 43 | #1,884 (1946) | #2,818 |
| 1950s | 522 | #803 (1957) | #1,090 |
| 1960s | 395 | #903 (1969) | #1,277 |
| 1970s | 612 | #962 (1973) | #1,076 |
| 1980s | 360 | #1,320 (1984) | #1,742 |
| 1990s | 416 | #1,557 (1991) | #2,054 |
| 2000s | 214 | #2,864 (2000) | #4,274 |
| 2010s | 167 | #4,463 (2013) | #5,415 |
| 2020s | 78 | #5,235 (2020) | #6,767 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brion in 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 30,430 of them was named Brion, which outranked 82.5% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,187Monroe55
- #1,187Reagan55
- #1,187Rubin55
- #1,198Brion54
- #1,198Bryson54
- #1,198Everardo54
- #1,198Luciano54
- #1,210Benjiman53
- #1,210Cassidy53
- #1,210Chip53
Tied with 11 names at #1,198; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.