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Bryant vs Bryelle

American parents have registered 51,934 Bryants since 1880, against 652 Bryelles. Bryant is still ahead, with 146 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bryant against Bryelle, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bryant Bryelle

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

Bryant has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Bryant had 176 and Bryelle had 48.

Side by side

  Bryant Bryelle
Total US births 51,934652
Most in one year 1,74248
Babies in 2025 14630
Estimated living today 46,000650
Median age today 3510
Peak year 19892024
Best rank 176th boys3,277th girls
Rank in 2025 1,323rd4,546th
First recorded 18801991
Girls / boys 237 / 51,697652 / 0

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 Bryants alive today are over 35; half the Bryelles are over 10. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Bryant Bryelle
England and Wales 96

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: Bryant and Bryelle.