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Bryce vs Brynnley

American parents have registered 127,695 Bryces since 1880, against 976 Brynnleys. Bryce is still ahead, with 995 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Bryce Brynnley

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 2025, when Bryce had 995 and Brynnley had 40.

Side by side

  Bryce Brynnley
Total US births 127,695976
Most in one year 4,43777
Babies in 2025 99540
Estimated living today 122,000970
Median age today 219
Peak year 20002015
Best rank 92nd boys2,382nd girls
Rank in 2025 357th3,712th
First recorded 19082003
Girls / boys 3,592 / 124,103976 / 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 Brynnleys are over 9. That is 12 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 Brynnley.