Braelin
Braelin is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,123 among girls’ names and #9,036 among boys’, #12,415 among all names counting both); 638 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braelin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Braelin?
#9,036 among boys’ names, 2025
Braelin fell from #5,769 in 2015 to #9,036 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 4.7 per million.
42 babies in 2009, the peak
Braelin peaked in 2009, when 42 babies were given it (28 boys, #3,731 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 36% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,123 | 8 | #9,036 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 6 | #11,137 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 19 | #5,093 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,880 | 19 | #5,041 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,768 | 10 | #7,671 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,394 | 11 | #7,099 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,610 | 17 | #5,376 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,694 | 14 | #6,071 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,428 | 17 | #5,316 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,631 | 13 | #6,403 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,228 | 15 | #5,769 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,259 | 8 | #8,878 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,661 | 16 | #5,425 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,875 | 21 | #4,553 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,268 | 22 | #4,380 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,796 | 21 | #4,536 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,520 | 28 | #3,731 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,592 | 20 | #4,730 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,640 | 19 | #4,827 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,018 | 11 | #6,967 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,006 | 10 | #7,176 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,015 | 12 | #6,180 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,145 | 11 | #6,303 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,390 | 5 | #10,868 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,263 | 5 | #10,755 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,390 | 5 | #10,546 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,715 | 11 | #5,693 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,440 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,278 | 5 | #9,424 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #9,011 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Braelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 638 Americans recorded as Braelin, 40% are girls and 60% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Braelin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braelin, and how old are they?
An estimated 632 Americans named Braelin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 500 people named Braelin (230 women and girls, 270 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 538 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,548 babies since 1880, Braelin is the sixth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 862 babies (1.7%), again the sixth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Braelin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Braelin and names like it
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