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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Bryan

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#336

down −29 places

2025 births

1,005

down −100 births

All-time births

389,589

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1985
8,717 births
Best rank
#42
in 1977
First recorded
1883
#812 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1985
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
137 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19858,717#48Peak
  2. 19868,651#47
  3. 19878,560#51
  4. 19848,270#48
  5. 19838,191#47

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #42 in 1977 · peak births 8,717 in 1985

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

389,589 boys · 1,717 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Bryan has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.