# Bryant (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bryant/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbɹaɪ.ənt/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 51,934 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 51,697 / 237 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 9, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 11 | 5,866 |
| 1984 | 7 | 8,265 |
| 1985 | 5 | 10,872 |
| 1986 | 12 | 5,801 |
| 1987 | 13 | 5,639 |
| 1988 | 15 | 5,359 |
| 1989 | 5 | 12,647 |
| 1990 | 5 | 13,251 |
| 1991 | 12 | 7,024 |
| 1994 | 5 | 13,742 |
| 1996 | 6 | 12,068 |
| 1997 | 5 | 14,069 |
| 1999 | 5 | 14,769 |
| 2000 | 7 | 11,995 |
| 2020 | 5 | 15,547 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 602 | 449 |
| 2012 | 557 | 485 |
| 2013 | 481 | 551 |
| 2014 | 477 | 582 |
| 2015 | 426 | 626 |
| 2016 | 467 | 587 |
| 2017 | 466 | 583 |
| 2018 | 356 | 685 |
| 2019 | 271 | 831 |
| 2020 | 400 | 657 |
| 2021 | 309 | 795 |
| 2022 | 254 | 908 |
| 2023 | 196 | 1,094 |
| 2024 | 176 | 1,177 |
| 2025 | 146 | 1,323 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## People named Bryant

- Bryant Dunston, Armenian basketball player (born 1986)
- Bryant Washburn, American actor (1889–1963)
- Bryant Reeves, American basketball player (born 1973)
- Bryant Gumbel, American television journalist and sportscaster
- Bryant Jennings, boxer
- Bryant Stith, American basketball player (born 1970)
- Henry Bryant Bigelow, American oceanographer (1879–1967)
- Bryant Butler Brooks, American politician (1861-1944)
- Bryant Crawford, American basketball player (born 1997)
- Bryant Tuckerman, American mathematician (1915–2002)
- Tom Cotton, American politician and army officer (born 1977)
- Sonny West, American actor, bodyguard for Elvis Presley

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.