girls:
279 births since 1984
#5437 (5th percentile)
boys:
78.3k births since 1914
#368 (92nd percentile)
overall:
78.6k births since 1914
#810 (90th percentile)
The name Bryson is the #810 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 78,561 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 89.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #368 (92.0% percentile) for all time with 78,282 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,437 (4.8% percentile) for all time with 279 births since 1984.
Bryson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1984 for girls). Birth data for Bryson is available in 108 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (108 years for boys and 30 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 Bryson has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Bryson reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 90.8% percentile (ranked #85) with 2,361 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 2,361 births per million (ranked 90.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Bryson ranks #147 for boys (84.0% percentile) with 1,329 births per million, which is 56.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Bryson reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #925) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bryson".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Bryson is pronounced as BRAI-suhn, which has 2 syllables.
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