Braelyn — #1079 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Braelyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,746 babies named Braelyn between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Braelyn currently holds the #1079 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 735 babies received it in a single year. Braelyn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,302 additional births since 2000.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Braelyn performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 6,329 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Braelyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 769 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Braelyn in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Braelyn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 10,746 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.