Brayla — #5874 US girls' name
609 babies named Brayla in U.S. Social Security records since 1993, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 67% of names given to girls today.
54% of everyone ever named Brayla was born in this single decade.
44 babies were named Brayla in 2017 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Brayla
The Social Security Administration has registered 609 babies named Brayla between 1993 and 2024, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Brayla currently holds the #5874 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 44 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Brayla performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 326 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Brayla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Brayla in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Brayla 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 609 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.
Brayla at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Brayla popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1993
- Peak year (2017)
- 44
- Annual births at peak — across 32 years of records
Currently ranks #5874 among girls.
609 total births across 32 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2017 with 44 births in a single year.
Brayla by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 326 births that decade — 54% of Brayla's all-time total
Brayla decade highlights
- Peak decade 326 births
- Runner-up 151 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Brayla's strongest decade
326 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 54% of all-time use.
Brayla by state
Where Brayla concentrates geographically — total births since 1993
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Ohio | | 15 | 2.5% |
| #2 | Georgia | | 10 | 1.6% |
| #3 | Texas | | 10 | 1.6% |
| #4 | Tennessee | | 6 | 1.0% |
| #5 | Louisiana | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #6 | Mississippi | | 5 | 0.8% |
15 of 609 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Ohio 2.5% of nationwide
- Georgia 1.6% of nationwide
- Texas 1.6% of nationwide
- Tennessee 1.0% of nationwide
- Louisiana 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Ohio accounts for 2.5% 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, 1993–2024 (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.