Given name & surname · also Irish
Bryant
Bryant is a masculine given name from Irish.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
It entered given-name use through an existing surname.
The story
Its naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Bryant through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 51,934
- 51,697 boys · 237 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 1,742 babies
- 2025
- 146
- #1,323 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −45%
- Cooling
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 146 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,323 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 44.8% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 1,737 in 1989. In 2025, Florida had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (19). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 37,663 as a first name in 2020; 184,727 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Bryant
- Bryant DunstonArmenian basketball player (born 1986)
- Bryant WashburnAmerican actor (1889–1963)
- Bryant ReevesAmerican basketball player (born 1973)
- Bryant Jenningsboxerborn 1984
- Bryant GumbelAmerican television journalist and sportscasterborn 1948
- Bryant StithAmerican basketball player (born 1970)
- Ray ChangTaiwanese actorborn 1985
- Bryant Butler BrooksAmerican politician (1861-1944)
- Bryant CrawfordAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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