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How popular is “Bryson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bryson” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bryson” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Bryson” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Bryson” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Bryson” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Bryson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bryson” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 -100%
1916 8 0.000004136 8 -100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 -100%
1918 8 0.000003685 8 -100%
1920 10 0.00000442 10 -100%
1921 10 0.000004284 10 -100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 -100%
1923 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1924 9 0.000003779 9 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1926 13 0.000005662 13 -100%
1927 11 0.000004743 11 -100%
1928 12 0.000005308 12 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1930 16 0.000007197 16 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 -100%
1933 9 0.000004501 9 -100%
1934 9 0.000004334 9 -100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 -100%
1937 10 0.000004693 10 -100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 -100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 11 0.000004515 11 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1943 17 0.000006023 17 -100%
1944 11 0.000004089 11 -100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 -100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 -100%
1947 14 0.000003886 14 -100%
1948 11 0.000003186 11 -100%
1949 16 0.000004591 16 -100%
1950 13 0.000003711 13 -100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 -100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 -100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 -100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 -100%
1955 18 0.000004483 18 -100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 -100%
1957 12 0.000002856 12 -100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 -100%
1959 9 0.000002165 9 -100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 -100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 -100%
1962 14 0.000003469 14 -100%
1963 17 0.000004295 17 -100%
1964 17 0.000004373 17 -100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 -100%
1966 17 0.000004891 17 -100%
1967 11 0.00000324 11 -100%
1968 19 0.000005624 19 -100%
1969 17 0.000004892 17 -100%
1970 19 0.000005268 19 -100%
1971 25 0.000007284 25 -100%
1972 25 0.000007954 25 -100%
1973 35 0.000011601 35 -100%
1974 47 0.000015461 47 -100%
1975 53 0.000017553 53 -100%
1976 42 0.000013842 42 -100%
1977 54 0.000017 54 -100%
1978 62 0.000019535 62 -100%
1979 107 0.000032161 107 -100%
1980 136 0.000039483 136 -100%
1981 136 0.000039313 136 -100%
1982 178 0.000050742 178 -100%
1983 180 0.000051973 180 -100%
1984 199 0.00005704 5 194 -95%
1985 209 0.000058558 209 -100%
1986 262 0.000073656 262 -100%
1987 256 0.000071 256 -100%
1988 312 0.000084437 312 -100%
1989 327 0.000085058 327 -100%
1990 333 0.000084251 333 -100%
1991 383 0.000098325 383 -100%
1992 394 0.00010257 394 -100%
1993 443 0.000117498 443 -100%
1994 472 0.000126962 5 467 -98%
1995 553 0.000151004 10 543 -96%
1996 695 0.000190557 6 689 -98%
1997 751 0.00020713 10 741 -97%
1998 871 0.0002368 11 860 -97%
1999 1080 0.000292377 14 1066 -97%
2000 1216 0.000321701 10 1206 -98%
2001 1368 0.000365444 12 1356 -98%
2002 1481 0.00039617 10 1471 -99%
2003 1668 0.00043868 10 1658 -99%
2004 1933 0.000505899 17 1916 -98%
2005 1986 0.000516536 6 1980 -99%
2006 2324 0.000587434 9 2315 -99%
2007 2337 0.000584589 14 2323 -99%
2008 2236 0.000568861 5 2231 -100%
2009 2619 0.000685571 8 2611 -99%
2010 3407 0.000921872 15 3392 -99%
2011 3954 0.00108098 11 3943 -99%
2012 4049 0.001107081 8 4041 -100%
2013 3823 0.001048642 7 3816 -100%
2014 3436 0.000927051 11 3425 -99%
2015 3124 0.000844116 9 3115 -99%
2016 4379 0.001193611 7 4372 -100%
2017 4685 0.001310052 8 4677 -100%
2018 4234 0.001204245 11 4223 -99%
2019 3644 0.001049862 11 3633 -99%
2020 3223 0.000964803 6 3217 -100%
2021 3103 0.000915893 7 3096 -100%
2022 2711 0.000801328 6 2705 -100%
2023 2444 0.000738102 2444 -100%
2024 2469 0.000741775 2469 -100%

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