Brion

Brion was the #8,243 boys' name in the US in 2025 (9 babies).

Brion as a boy’s name

  • US
  • Ireland
Brion as a boy’s name, US, IrelandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, Ireland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.060.130.190.2518801900192019401960198020002020US
Brion as a boy’s name, US, IrelandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, Ireland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.060.130.190.251880192019602000
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. In Ireland, the line follows the most-used spelling each year: Brion to 2017, Bríon from 2019. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearUSIreland
2025#8,243 (9)—
2024#5,241 (18)—
2023#8,921 (8)—
2022#5,874 (15)—
2021#7,089 (11)#631 (4)
2020#5,235 (17)—
2019#6,406 (13)#764 (3)
2018#5,320 (17)—
2017#5,526 (16)#710 (3)
2016#6,053 (14)—
2015#4,545 (21)#459 (7)
2014#5,066 (18)—
2013#4,463 (21)#448 (7)
2012#5,035 (18)#718 (3)
2011#6,256 (13)—

The tide so far

  • Peaked in the US in 1973 at #962.
  • Falling over the last five years.
  • First recorded in the US in 1945.
  • In 2018, 23% of US babies named Brion were girls.

How common is it?

about 1 in 200,000 baby boys in the published US list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.

Next year

On its recent trend, Brion is likely to keep rising in the US in 2026: about 1 in 160,000 baby boys. Likely range 1 in 77,000 to 1 in 340,000.

Estimate, not an official figure. How we estimate.

Spellings

Official statistics count each spelling separately, so we show them side by side rather than adding them up.

SpellingWhereSexLatest rankBabies
BrionIrelandBoys—too few
BríonIrelandBoys—too few
BrionNorthern IrelandBoys—too few
BrionUSGirls—too few
BrionUSBoys#8,2439