Baby name
FADING
🇧🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇪 Brian
/BRY · an/
Meaning
“Strong, noble, or high”
From Old Irish Brían, meaning 'strong, noble, or high', name of the famous High King Brian Boru.
Nicknames
bri
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Feels distinctly mid-20th-century now, very common on men aged 35–65, less used for babies.
The cultural moment.
Peaked in the US and UK in the 1970s; rarely chosen for newborns today.