Brÿan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Brÿan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 40th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Variant of )Brian, influenced by the usual spelling of the associated sur- name.
- ECEcuador1 in 258(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 495
- USUnited States1 in 1K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 438 (measured from records)
- 1 in 258 (inferred from the name graph)
327,372 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bryan in US United States, BR Brazil, EC Ecuador and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of )Brian, influenced by the usual spelling of the associated sur- name.
Sources 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brÿan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 327,372 | 1 in 1K | 327K | Bryan | 438 |
| BR Brazil | #952 | 71,679 | 1 in 3K | 72K | Bryan | 140 |
| EC Ecuador | #140 | 65,634 | 1 in 258 | 66K | Bryan | 86 |
| CR Costa Rica | #40 | 10,289 | 1 in 495 | 10K | Bryan | 92 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,617 | 1 in 14K | 3.6K | Bryan | 121 |
| GY Guyana | — | 373 | 1 in 2K | 373 | — | — |
327,372 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brÿan mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of )Brian, influenced by the usual spelling of the associated sur- name. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 4 other sources.
- Is Brÿan a male or female name?
- Brÿan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Brÿan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 327 thousand people named Brÿan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bryan.
- Where is Brÿan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Brÿan is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 258 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Brÿan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 327,372 people named Brÿan in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Brÿan compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Brÿan is the 40th most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/br%C3%BFanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brÿan” — the 40th most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.