Bryon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A male given name from Irish, a nonstandard spelling of Brian
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɹaɪən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bryon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Germany it is the 21st most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 805as Braun(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.7Kas Bryant
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.5Kas Braun
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bryon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 454 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 805 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 named Braun, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est., as Braun
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Braun in US United States, DE Germany, CA Canada and 3 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)
A male given name from Irish, a nonstandard spelling of Brian.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bryon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Braun | 10 |
| US United States | #860 | 192,773as Bryant | 1 in 1.7K | 1M | Braun | 454 |
| DE Germany | #21 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 805 | listed | Braun | 283 |
| BR Brazil | — | 9,008as Braun | 1 in 24K | 72K | Bryon | 22 |
| CA Canada | #600 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 11 | Braun | 179 |
| CH Switzerland | #168 | 3,329as Braun | 1 in 2.5K | 3.3K | Braun | 86 |
| AT Austria | #138 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 197 | Braun | 100 |
| LU Luxembourg | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 1.4K | — | 28 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bryon is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of brionie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bryon Butlerb. 1934GBBritish sports broadcaster and writer
- Bryon Wilfertb. 1952CACanadian politician
- Bryon Nickoloffb. 1956CACanadian chess player
- Bryon Russellb. 1970USAmerican basketball player (born 1970)
- Bryon Widnerb. 1977USAmerican former skinhead
- Bryon Kieferb. 1986NLDutch footballer
- Bryon Bishopb. 1986USAmerican football player
- Bryon Wilsonb. 1988USfreestyle skier
- Bryon Allenb. 1992USAmerican basketball player (born 1992)
- Bryon Bullyactor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11K | #2,314 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 451 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 433 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 422 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 407 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 405 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 401 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 369 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 355 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 354 | #54,522 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 353 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 349 | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bryon mean, and where does it come from?
- A male given name from Irish, a nonstandard spelling of Brian. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bryon?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹaɪən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Bryon a male or female name?
- Bryon 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.
- What are other forms of the name Bryon?
- In the etymology graph, Brian, Bryan and Brayan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Bryon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 228 thousand people named Braun in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bryon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 192,773 people named Bryant in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Bryon compared with other names?
- In Germany, Bryon is the 21st most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bryon?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bryonThe 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, “Bryon” — the 21st most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.