Brailynn
Brailynn was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,892 among girls’ names; 952 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brailynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brailynn?
#6,892 among girls’ names, 2025
Brailynn fell from #2,852 in 2015 to #6,892 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.2 to 10.0 per million.
83 babies in 2012, the peak
Brailynn peaked in 2012, when 83 babies were given it (78 girls, #2,379 among girls’ names). The 16 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,892 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,823 | 13.0 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,060 | 22.4 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,658 | 25.6 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,633 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,846 | 22.9 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,400 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,875 | 34.1 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,930 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,648 | 37.2 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,852 | 34.2 |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,327 | 44.2 |
| 2013 | 75 | #2,412 | 42.7 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,379 | 44.3 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,055 | 31.3 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,525 | 25.3 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,286 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,664 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,858 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,815 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,894 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,598 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,362 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,757 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brailynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 952 Americans recorded as Brailynn, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brailynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brailynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 945 Americans named Brailynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 8 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 638 people named Brailynn (605 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 775 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 28,746 babies since 1880, Brailynn is the sixth most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 758 babies (2.1%), again the sixth most given.
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 Brailynn
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 Brailynn and names like it
- Compare Brailynn and BraelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrailynn peaked in 2012.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brailynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Brailynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brailynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.