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Brysen

Gender
Boy
Say it
BRY-sen
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#2,230 for boys

Brysen is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “son of Brice”. In 2025 it ranked 2,230th for boys in the US (63 babies).

What does Brysen mean?

English: spelling of Bryson, a surname

“son of Brice”

A spelling of Bryson, an English surname meaning 'son of Brice'.

Is Brysen a girl's or a boy's name?

Brysen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 63 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Brysen in the US?

Rank in 2025
#2,230among boys
Babies in 2025
63about 1 in 27,000 boys
Five-year trend
Falling fastdown 64% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 63 boys in the US were named Brysen, making it the 2,230th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,225th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 262 boys. It first appears in the records in 1983.

It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer boys named Brysen than any year since 2002.

Half of all the boys named Brysen in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,787 boys in the US were given Brysen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #144, up from #2,230 for this spelling alone.

1983Busiest: 262 in 20172025
Brysen in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202563#2,230
202466#2,190
202384#1,875
2022125#1,447
2021125#1,442
2020153#1,225
2019177#1,112
2018256#860
2017262#843
2016249#878
2015203#1,006
2014196#1,032
2013210#948
2012178#1,065
2011225#902
2010152#1,183
2009123#1,381
200897#1,613
200791#1,669
200681#1,724
200572#1,798
200466#1,853
200364#1,842
200237#2,599
200138#2,515
200043#2,252
199930#2,791
199828#2,848
199720#3,450
199630#2,530
199519#3,426
199417#3,745
199316#3,812
199212#4,556
199115#3,806
199010#4,986
19895#7,898
19889#4,781
19878#4,962
198611#3,878
19859#4,328
19840–
19835#6,234

Names like Brysen

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Brysen

Names related to Brysen

More English names

Every English name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Brysen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/brysen, updated 20 October 2026.