Brian

At the 2020 census, 3,738 Americans bore the surname Brian — 8,474th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 80,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,738
Rank: 8,474th
How common: 1 in 80,000
Per 100,000: 1.3

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Brian described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 80.9%
Black, not Hispanic 6.8%
Hispanic or Latino 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%

Notable people called Brian

Mary Brian (1906–2002)American actress
Havergal Brian (1876–1972)British composer
David Brian (1914–1993)Film and television actor
Frank Brian (1923–2017)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Brian

Also a first name

Brian has been given to 1,178,298 American babies as a first name since 1909, peaking in 1972. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.