Bryan

Bryan is the 598th most common surname in the United States, shared by 54,685 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,466.

By the numbers

People: 54,685
Rank: 598th
How common: 1 in 5,466
Per 100,000: 18.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish, from a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.9%
Black, not Hispanic 12.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Bryan

William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925)American politician
Bob Bryan (born 1978)American tennis player
Mike Bryan (born 1978)American tennis player
David Bryan (born 1962)American keyboardist
Sabrina Bryan (born 1984)American singer
Luke Bryan (born 1976)American country music singer
Dora Bryan (1923–2014)British actress of stage, film and television
Zach Bryan (born 1996)American country musician

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

Surnames like Bryan

Also a first name

Bryan has been given to 391,306 American babies as a first name since 1883, peaking in 1985. 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.