Bralyn
Bralyn was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,748 among boys’ names; 862 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bralyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bralyn?
#7,748 among boys’ names, 2025
Bralyn fell from #3,792 in 2015 to #7,748 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 5.9 per million.
65 babies in 2011, the peak
Bralyn peaked in 2011, when 65 babies were given it (50 boys, #2,479 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 10 | #7,748 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 7 | #10,048 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 6 | #11,014 | |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,804 | 10 | #7,834 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,426 | 14 | #6,067 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,360 | 16 | #5,485 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,612 | 12 | #6,827 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,706 | 13 | #6,390 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,833 | 12 | #6,736 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,699 | 17 | #5,347 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,580 | 28 | #3,792 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,554 | 37 | #3,041 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,814 | 22 | #4,338 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,818 | 32 | #3,377 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,856 | 50 | #2,479 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,263 | 35 | #3,184 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,736 | 40 | #2,953 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,308 | 35 | #3,229 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,859 | 24 | #4,135 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,906 | 26 | #3,798 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,244 | 14 | #5,598 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,824 | 20 | #4,276 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,555 | 8 | #7,928 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,934 | 8 | #7,723 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,794 | 11 | #6,060 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,012 | 10 | #6,366 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 5 | #10,076 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,798 | 9 | #6,036 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,861 | 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 Bralyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 862 Americans recorded as Bralyn, 38% are girls and 62% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Bralyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bralyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 853 Americans named Bralyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 741 people named Bralyn (324 women and girls, 417 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 774 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 41,548 babies since 1880, Bralyn is the fifth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 862 babies (1.2%), the seventh 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 Bralyn
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 Bralyn and names like it
- Compare Bralyn and BraylonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBralyn peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bralyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Bralyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bralyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.