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Brion

Brion reached its high-water mark in 1957 at number 803, and has been recorded 2,896 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 2,500 Brions are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Brion boys named Brion

By the numbers

Total US births
2,896
Estimated living today
2,500
Median age today
45
Peak year
1957
Best rank
803rd
Rank in 2025
8,243rd
First recorded
1945
Girls / boys
89 / 2,807

How old the living Brions are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,896 babies given the name since 1945, about 2,500 are alive — 88 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Brions

People named Brion with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Brion is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Brion is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (3.3×), Illinois (2.4×), Florida (2.3×), New York (2.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1957

The most popular boys’ names the year Brion peaked:

All the names of 1957

Brion elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Ireland boys Brion +1 spelling 68 448th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Brion against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.