Brandilyn — girls' name
664 babies named Brandilyn in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
39% of everyone ever named Brandilyn was born in this single decade.
38 babies were named Brandilyn in 1979 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Brandilyn
The Social Security Administration has registered 664 babies named Brandilyn between 1971 and 2012, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Brandilyn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 38 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Brandilyn performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 262 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Brandilyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Brandilyn in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Brandilyn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 664 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Brandilyn at a glance
Last recorded 2012Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Brandilyn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–1971
- Peak year (1979)
- 38
- Annual births at peak — across 42 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2012.
664 total births across 42 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1979 with 38 births in a single year.
Brandilyn by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 262 births that decade — 39% of Brandilyn's all-time total
Brandilyn decade highlights
- Peak decade 262 births
- Runner-up 174 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Brandilyn's strongest decade
262 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Brandilyn by state
Where Brandilyn concentrates geographically — total births since 1971
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 15 | 2.3% |
| #2 | California | | 11 | 1.7% |
15 of 664 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.3% of nationwide
- California 1.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1971–2012 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.