girls:
26 births since 2000
#5690 (0th percentile)
boys:
13.4k births since 1976
#1005 (78th percentile)
overall:
13.4k births since 1976
#2266 (71st percentile)
The name Brycen is the #2,266 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,388 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 70.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,005 (78.1% percentile) for all time with 13,362 births since 1976. For girls, it ranks #5,690 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 2000.
Brycen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for boys and 2000 for girls). Birth data for Brycen is available in 44 out of the 48 years between 1976 and 2023 (44 years for boys and 4 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Brycen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brycen reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 65.3% percentile (ranked #306) with 492 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 492 births per million (ranked 65.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brycen ranks #614 for boys (32.6% percentile) with 173 births per million, which is 35.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brycen reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #934) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brycen".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Bryson. View all variations of Bryson.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Brycen", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 16 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Bryson" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Bryson..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Brycen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Brycen is pronounced as BRAI-suhn, which has 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Brycen? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Brycen. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Brycen, please vote using the thumbs up button.
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 S 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.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker