Bryn
#2,017 for girls in 2025, 94 births · #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
Given to girls 85.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 370 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,532since 1949
Bryn over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #2,017 | 94 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #2,099 | 91 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #2,076 | 93 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #1,856 | 109 | #5,215 | 18 |
| 2021 | #1,524 | 138 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #1,763 | 113 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #1,483 | 148 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #1,338 | 168 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #1,625 | 133 | #5,526 | 16 |
| 2016 | #1,325 | 180 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #1,162 | 217 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #966 | 276 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #803 | 337 | #5,659 | 15 |
| 2012 | #779 | 353 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #744 | 370 | #5,200 | 17 |
| 2010 | #1,092 | 229 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | #1,478 | 157 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #1,354 | 179 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #1,317 | 185 | #7,094 | 11 |
| 2006 | #1,252 | 192 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #1,112 | 213 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #912 | 265 | #4,264 | 20 |
| 2003 | #1,060 | 212 | #3,732 | 23 |
| 2002 | #1,100 | 192 | #4,044 | 20 |
| 2001 | #1,193 | 171 | #3,721 | 22 |
| 2000 | #1,029 | 204 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #975 | 212 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #1,285 | 140 | #2,851 | 28 |
| 1997 | #1,595 | 100 | #3,601 | 19 |
| 1996 | #1,337 | 127 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #1,474 | 108 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1994 | #1,634 | 92 | #3,469 | 19 |
| 1993 | #1,538 | 101 | #2,347 | 32 |
| 1992 | #1,782 | 81 | #2,214 | 34 |
| 1991 | #1,564 | 98 | #2,019 | 37 |
| 1990 | #1,755 | 83 | #1,755 | 45 |
| 1989 | #1,629 | 85 | #1,793 | 42 |
| 1988 | #1,704 | 75 | #2,197 | 28 |
| 1987 | #1,762 | 67 | #1,974 | 31 |
| 1986 | #1,816 | 62 | #1,588 | 41 |
| 1985 | #1,727 | 66 | #2,019 | 28 |
| 1984 | #1,565 | 72 | #1,933 | 28 |
| 1983 | #1,689 | 65 | #1,955 | 27 |
| 1982 | #1,474 | 81 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | #1,641 | 70 | #2,204 | 23 |
| 1980 | #1,605 | 72 | #2,536 | 19 |
| 1979 | #1,461 | 82 | #2,465 | 19 |
| 1978 | #2,269 | 40 | #2,669 | 16 |
| 1977 | #2,423 | 36 | #2,665 | 16 |
| 1976 | #2,060 | 42 | #3,095 | 12 |
| 1975 | #2,169 | 39 | #2,134 | 21 |
| 1974 | #2,683 | 27 | #2,674 | 14 |
| 1973 | #2,223 | 35 | #1,982 | 21 |
| 1972 | #2,747 | 25 | #2,418 | 15 |
| 1971 | #2,874 | 24 | #2,052 | 20 |
| 1970 | #2,938 | 23 | #1,658 | 27 |
| 1969 | #3,012 | 20 | #2,130 | 16 |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 | #2,311 | 13 |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 | #2,030 | 15 |
| 1966 | #3,148 | 16 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #3,050 | 17 | #1,918 | 17 |
| 1964 | #3,692 | 13 | #2,409 | 12 |
| 1963 | #2,960 | 18 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1962 | #3,293 | 15 | #1,962 | 17 |
| 1961 | #2,411 | 25 | #2,409 | 12 |
| 1960 | #2,573 | 22 | #2,423 | 12 |
| 1959 | #3,436 | 13 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #3,085 | 15 | #2,265 | 13 |
| 1957 | #2,926 | 16 | #3,552 | 6 |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 | #2,969 | 8 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | #2,964 | 8 |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 | #3,714 | 5 |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,612 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bryn! It came in at #3,612, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1955, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Bryn
- 82 spots since 2024 (#2,099 → #2,017)
- 254 spots since 2020 (#1,763 → #2,017)
- 855 spots since 2015 (#1,162 → #2,017)
- Biggest jump: 348 spots in 2011 (#1,092 → #744)
- Biggest drop: 200 spots in 2005 (#912 → #1,112)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 2011 at #744 (370 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2011–2014
- Highest: 1 in 4,754 girls born in 2011 were named Bryn (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,099 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 32.0% of all girls named Bryn (2,411) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1970, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 9 | #3,612 (1949) | #3,612 |
| 1950s | 99 | #2,926 (1957) | #4,001 |
| 1960s | 175 | #2,411 (1961) | #3,114 |
| 1970s | 373 | #1,461 (1979) | #2,385 |
| 1980s | 715 | #1,474 (1982) | #1,661 |
| 1990s | 1,142 | #975 (1999) | #1,494 |
| 2000s | 1,970 | #912 (2004) | #1,181 |
| 2010s | 2,411 | #744 (2011) | #1,132 |
| 2020s | 638 | #1,524 (2021) | #1,889 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bryn in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 22,874 of them was named Bryn, which outranked 88.5% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,733Raechel84
- #1,733Tamar84
- #1,733Zulema84
- #1,755Bryn83
- #1,755Annelise83
- #1,755Celene83
- #1,755Deanne83
- #1,769Analisa82
- #1,769Charisse82
- #1,769Elva82
Tied with 13 names at #1,755; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 45,645 of them was named Bryn, which outranked 81.5% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,730Sebastien46
- #1,730Tavares46
- #1,730Tyreese46
- #1,755Bryn45
- #1,755Anthoney45
- #1,755Aryeh45
- #1,755Damond45
- #1,780Ameer44
- #1,780Christain44
- #1,780Correy44
Tied with 24 names at #1,755; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.