Brailey
Brailey was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,447 among girls’ names; 1,181 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Brailey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brailey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brailey?
#8,447 among girls’ names, 2025
Brailey fell from #3,219 in 2015 to #8,447 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 28.6 to 7.5 per million.
79 babies in 2012, the peak
Brailey peaked in 2012, when 79 girls were given it, #2,360 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,447 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,677 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,147 | 15.6 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,336 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,110 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,562 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,508 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,060 | 31.2 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,490 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,336 | 27.1 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,219 | 28.6 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,045 | 30.8 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,601 | 38.8 |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,360 | 44.9 |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,436 | 42.6 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,843 | 34.3 |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,467 | 41.9 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,023 | 30.1 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,296 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,678 | 22.1 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,743 | 21.1 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,402 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,556 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,600 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,388 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,247 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,933 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,158 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,121 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,651 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,972 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,197 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brailey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brailey has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 32 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brailey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brailey, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,181 Americans ever recorded as Brailey. The median Brailey alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 981 people named Brailey (923 women and girls, 58 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,049 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 27 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 653 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 492 |
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 Brailey born?
The states with the most babies named Brailey are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 78% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 175 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 31 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 20 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Indiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Alabama | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Brailey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brailey is most over-represented in Texas: since 1994 it was given 1.4 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 Brailey with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Brailey?
Brailey is a less common spelling of Braylee: SSA has recorded 1,181 Brailey and 6,924 Braylee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,067 babies since 1880, Brailey is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 222 babies (5.4%), the third 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 Brailey
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 Brailey and names like it
- Compare Brailey and BrayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrailey peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brailey since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Brailey.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brailey alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.