girls:
89 births since 1989
#5627 (2nd percentile)
boys:
2.8k births since 1945
#2392 (48th percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1945
#5048 (35th percentile)
The name Brion is the #5,048 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,867 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 34.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,392 (47.8% percentile) for all time with 2,778 births since 1945. For girls, it ranks #5,627 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 89 births since 1989.
Brion first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (1945 for boys and 1989 for girls).
The name Brion has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brion reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 12.5% percentile (ranked #576) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 43 births per million (ranked 10.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brion ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 8.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brion reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #836) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brion".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Brion. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.5% confident that Brion is pronounced as BRAI-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BREE-uhn, at 45.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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