Bryant

184,727 people in the United States were counted with the surname Bryant in the 2020 census, making it the 135th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,618.

By the numbers

People: 184,727
Rank: 135th
How common: 1 in 1,618
Per 100,000: 61.8

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 Bryant described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 56.0%
Black, not Hispanic 34.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Bryant

Kobe Bryant (1978–2020)American basketball player
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)American romantic poet and journalist
Louise Bryant (1885–1936)American activist and journalist
Anita Bryant (1940–2024)American singer and activist
Gyude Bryant (1949–2014)Liberian politician
Phil Bryant (born 1954)American politician
Joy Bryant (born 1974)American actress and model
Joe Bryant (1954–2024)American basketball player and coach

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

Surnames like Bryant

Also a first name

Bryant has been given to 51,934 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1989. 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.