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Bryanna vs Bryce

American parents have registered 127,695 Bryces since 1880, against 19,643 Bryannas. Bryce is still ahead, with 995 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bryanna against Bryce, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bryanna Bryce

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Bryce has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1908 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Bryanna had 518 and Bryce had 1,855.

Side by side

  Bryanna Bryce
Total US births 19,643127,695
Most in one year 1,0274,437
Babies in 2025 79995
Estimated living today 19,000122,000
Median age today 2321
Peak year 19982000
Best rank 292nd girls92nd boys
Rank in 2025 2,298th357th
First recorded 19591908
Girls / boys 19,643 / 03,592 / 124,103

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Bryannas alive today are over 23; half the Bryces are over 21. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Bryanna Bryce
England and Wales 133750
France 300445
Ireland 33

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bryanna and Bryce.