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Bryce vs Brynna

American parents have registered 127,695 Bryces since 1880, against 3,102 Brynnas. Bryce is still ahead, with 995 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Bryce Brynna

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 2011, when Bryce had 3,474 and Brynna had 171.

Side by side

  Bryce Brynna
Total US births 127,6953,102
Most in one year 4,437171
Babies in 2025 99520
Estimated living today 122,0003,100
Median age today 2118
Peak year 20002011
Best rank 92nd boys1,348th girls
Rank in 2025 357th5,917th
First recorded 19081973
Girls / boys 3,592 / 124,1033,102 / 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 Bryces alive today are over 21; half the Brynnas are over 18. That is 3 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.

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