Brailyn
Brailyn is given to both girls and boys: 20 girls and 12 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,951 among girls’ names and #6,858 among boys’, #7,591 among all names counting both); 1,481 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,470 Americans named Brailyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brailyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brailyn?
#5,951 among girls’ names, 2025
Brailyn fell from #3,142 in 2015 to #5,951 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.7 to 12.4 per million.
98 babies in 2014, the peak
Brailyn peaked in 2014, when 98 babies were given it (73 girls, #2,474 among girls’ names). The 32 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 33% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,951 | 12 | #6,858 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,403 | 14 | #6,229 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,579 | 16 | #5,691 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,926 | 12 | #6,880 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,979 | 10 | #7,673 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,845 | 17 | #5,268 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,086 | 10 | #7,720 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,245 | 19 | #4,941 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,019 | 18 | #5,128 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,110 | 25 | #4,111 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #3,142 | 20 | #4,737 |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,474 | 25 | #4,026 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,602 | 26 | #3,873 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,742 | 33 | #3,305 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,873 | 24 | #4,121 |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,565 | 24 | #4,115 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,050 | 25 | #4,047 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,725 | 22 | #4,413 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,542 | 13 | #6,306 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,105 | 18 | #4,880 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,042 | 11 | #6,697 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,781 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,646 | 6 | #9,721 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,743 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,852 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,336 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,305 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,365 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,281 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,229 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,691 | 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 Brailyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,481 Americans recorded as Brailyn, 73% are girls and 27% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brailyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brailyn, and how old are they?
1,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,481 Americans ever recorded as Brailyn. The median Brailyn alive today is 13 years old; half are between 9 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,110 people named Brailyn (760 women and girls, 350 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,241 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 15 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 702 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 752 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 28,602 babies since 1880, Brailyn is the fourth most given (5.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 758 babies (4.2%), the fifth 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 Brailyn
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 Brailyn and names like it
- Compare Brailyn and BraelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrailyn peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brailyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Brailyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brailyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.