Braelynn
Braelynn was given to 325 girls in 2025, #837 among girls’ names; 10,039 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,970 Americans named Braelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 6 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Braelynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Braelynn is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
20th-century coinage with -lynn, compare Braylen, Braylon. Variant: Braelyn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Braelynn?
#837 among girls’ names, 2025
Braelynn fell from #466 in 2015 to #837 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.38 to 0.20 per 1,000.
823 babies in 2016, the peak
Braelynn peaked in 2016, when 823 babies were given it (809 girls, #411 among girls’ names). The 333 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 40% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 325 | #837 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 347 | #810 | 0.21 |
| 2023 | 443 | #666 | 0.28 |
| 2022 | 522 | #574 | 0.32 |
| 2021 | 663 | #470 | 0.40 |
| 2020 | 694 | #445 | 0.43 |
| 2019 | 681 | #458 | 0.41 |
| 2018 | 778 | #396 | 0.46 |
| 2017 | 806 | #389 | 0.47 |
| 2016 | 809 | #411 | 0.46 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 686 | #466 | 0.38 |
| 2014 | 543 | #564 | 0.30 |
| 2013 | 446 | #629 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 475 | #602 | 0.27 |
| 2011 | 393 | #708 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 297 | #892 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 252 | #1,032 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 189 | #1,314 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,657 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 84 | #2,271 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,526 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,396 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,688 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,104 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,602 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,417 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,687 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,251 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,426 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,971 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,925 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,608 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Braelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,039 Americans recorded as Braelynn, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 325 girls and 8 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Braelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braelynn, and how old are they?
9,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 10,039 Americans ever recorded as Braelynn. The median Braelynn alive today is 9 years old; half are between 6 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 5,748 people named Braelynn (5,648 women and girls, 100 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,101 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 17 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,860 |
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 Braelynn born?
The states with the most babies named Braelynn are Texas, North Carolina and Wisconsin, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Wisconsin is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 21 | #1,231 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 19 | #561 | 0.9× |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #276 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 16 | #967 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #623 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 15 | #522 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 12 | #753 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 12 | #808 | 0.9× |
| New York | 12 | #1,176 | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 11 | #523 | 1.4× |
Where Braelynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Braelynn is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1989 it was given 2.2 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 Braelynn 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 28,746 babies since 1880, Braelynn is the second most given (35% of them). In 2025 it was given to 333 of their 758 babies (44%), the 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 Braelynn
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 Braelynn and names like it
- Compare Braelynn and BraelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBraelynn peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braelynn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Braelynn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Braelynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Braelynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.