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Brynn vs Bryonna

American parents have registered 30,211 Brynns since 1880, against 892 Bryonnas. Brynn is still ahead, with 774 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Brynn Bryonna

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

Brynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1943 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Brynn had 180 and Bryonna had 46.

Side by side

  Brynn Bryonna
Total US births 30,211892
Most in one year 1,67159
Babies in 2025 774under 5
Estimated living today 30,000880
Median age today 1323
Peak year 20112000
Best rank 192nd girls2,545th girls
Rank in 2025 407thunranked
First recorded 19431987
Girls / boys 29,816 / 395892 / 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 Bryonnas alive today are over 23; half the Brynns are over 13. That is 10 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: Brynn and Bryonna.