Brycen

What Brycen means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Brycen yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 276 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Brycen?

US: Falling: down from #451 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2011, when 999 boys got the name (#318 that year). First in the US records in 1976.

How common

• About 1 in 6,189 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MS (0.65 per 1,000 boys), AL (0.56 per 1,000 boys), LA (0.47 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Brycen is #867 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Brycen were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Bryson2,416 US · 28 E&W
• Brysen63 US
• Brazen20 US
• Braysen15 US
• Braycen10 US
• Brayzen7 US
• Bricen6 US
• Brysun6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Brycen

Boys

• Mason#39From a surname for “a stonemason”^*
• Carter#45“son of Arthur”^*
• Parker#102From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Jackson#36Editor’s note Down from #17 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US boys in the 2025 records
• Jayden#70Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #20 in 2015, #70 in 2025
• Aiden#62Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*

For a sister

• Brooklyn#118“wetland, marsh”^*
• Sophia#5“wisdom”^*
• Zoey#69Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1967, with 6 babies
• Lillian#57possibly “lily”^*
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Addison#84Form of Adam, meaning “earth, man, soil, light brown”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Brycen’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.