Braelyn
Braelyn is given to both girls and boys: 224 girls and 39 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,080 among girls’ names and #3,093 among boys’, #1,852 among all names counting both); 12,314 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,200 Americans named Braelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Braelyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Braelyn is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
20th-century coinage with -lyn, compare Braylen, Braylon. Variant: Braelynn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Braelyn?
#1,080 among girls’ names, 2025
Braelyn fell from #472 in 2015 to #1,080 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.38 to 0.14 per 1,000.
825 babies in 2011, the peak
Braelyn peaked in 2011, when 825 babies were given it (735 girls, #426 among girls’ names). The 263 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 32% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 224 | #1,080 | 39 | #3,093 |
| 2024 | 232 | #1,070 | 40 | #3,052 |
| 2023 | 291 | #914 | 53 | #2,512 |
| 2022 | 319 | #869 | 68 | #2,151 |
| 2021 | 380 | #750 | 63 | #2,227 |
| 2020 | 414 | #687 | 68 | #2,071 |
| 2019 | 458 | #639 | 54 | #2,464 |
| 2018 | 460 | #644 | 55 | #2,393 |
| 2017 | 664 | #469 | 63 | #2,155 |
| 2016 | 645 | #484 | 62 | #2,185 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 680 | #472 | 79 | #1,854 |
| 2014 | 711 | #452 | 75 | #1,921 |
| 2013 | 604 | #496 | 69 | #1,991 |
| 2012 | 699 | #448 | 90 | #1,687 |
| 2011 | 735 | #426 | 90 | #1,667 |
| 2010 | 673 | #458 | 106 | #1,525 |
| 2009 | 634 | #486 | 84 | #1,789 |
| 2008 | 543 | #567 | 48 | #2,590 |
| 2007 | 353 | #813 | 46 | #2,645 |
| 2006 | 311 | #859 | 32 | #3,310 |
| 2005 | 192 | #1,191 | 23 | #3,949 |
| 2004 | 165 | #1,296 | 20 | #4,275 |
| 2003 | 92 | #1,972 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,047 | 8 | #7,721 |
| 2001 | 106 | #1,699 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,237 | 7 | #8,296 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,437 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,121 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,522 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,602 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,226 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,036 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 15 | #5,984 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,287 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,631 | under 5 |
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 Braelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 12,314 Americans recorded as Braelyn, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Braelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braelyn, and how old are they?
12,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 12,314 Americans ever recorded as Braelyn. The median Braelyn alive today is 12 years old; half are between 8 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 8,800 people named Braelyn (7,987 women and girls, 813 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,173 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 109 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,830 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Braelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Braelyn are Texas, Florida and North Carolina, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,365 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 18 | #871 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 17 | #610 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 14 | #1,235 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 12 | #646 | 1.1× |
| New York | 12 | #1,175 | 0.4× |
| California | 10 | #1,976 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #941 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,158 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #907 | 1.2× |
Where Braelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Braelyn is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1991 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Braelyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 28,602 babies since 1880, Braelyn is the most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 263 of their 758 babies (35%), the second most given that year.
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 Braelyn
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 Braelyn and names like it
- Compare Braelyn and BraelynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBraelyn peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braelyn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Braelyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Braelyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Braelyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.