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Byran

Byran reached its high-water mark in 1986 at number 1,439, and has been recorded 1,400 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2021. About 1,300 Byrans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Byran

By the numbers

Total US births
1,400
Estimated living today
1,300
Median age today
40
Peak year
1986
Best rank
1,439th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1921

How old the living Byrans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,400 babies given the name since 1921, about 1,300 are alive — 90 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 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.

Where Byran is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Byran is most concentrated in California (5.5×), Texas (3.0×).

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

Names of 1986

The most popular boys’ names the year Byran peaked:

All the names of 1986

Byran elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Byran 36 2,282nd
Ireland boys Byran 3 390th

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.

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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.