Bryan

girls:

1.7k births since 1951

#4048 (29th percentile)

boys:

387.5k births since 1883

#86 (98th percentile)

overall:

389.2k births since 1883

#182 (98th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bryan".

1883 2023 18832023

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,717
Peak Births
71
Peak Year
1983
First Recorded
1951
Peak Percentile
8.3%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#698
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
387,463
Peak Births
8,718
Peak Year
1977
First Recorded
1883
Peak Percentile
93.9%
Current Percentile
68.0%
Peak Rank
#42
Current Rank
#292
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Bryan

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bryan. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 83.7% confident that Bryan is pronounced as BRAI-uhn. The next most likely pronunciation is BREE-uhn, at 16.3% confidence.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Bryan. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Bryan, please vote using the thumbs up button.

brihn (1 syllable)
5 names 40.9k births
B R IH1 N
BRAI-an (2 syllables)
6 names 24k births
B R AY1 AE0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like B R AY1 AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.