Brayleigh
Brayleigh was given to 62 girls in 2025, #2,756 among girls’ names; 2,445 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,430 Americans named Brayleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 6 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brayleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brayleigh?
#2,756 among girls’ names, 2025
Brayleigh fell from #1,354 in 2015 to #2,756 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 98.0 to 38.6 per million.
197 babies in 2017, the peak
Brayleigh peaked in 2017, when 197 girls were given it, #1,220 among girls’ names. The 62 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,756 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,330 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,762 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 132 | #1,603 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 158 | #1,386 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 140 | #1,518 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 171 | #1,332 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 178 | #1,284 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 197 | #1,220 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 168 | #1,388 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 175 | #1,354 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 185 | #1,289 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 134 | #1,604 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 138 | #1,576 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 89 | #2,147 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 93 | #2,121 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,855 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,875 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,581 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,947 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,983 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,453 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,261 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,936 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,463 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,399 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,723 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brayleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brayleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brayleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brayleigh, and how old are they?
2,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,445 Americans ever recorded as Brayleigh. The median Brayleigh alive today is 9 years old; half are between 6 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,470 people named Brayleigh (1,462 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,782 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 545 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,880 |
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).
Where are babies named Brayleigh born?
The states with the most babies named Brayleigh are North Carolina, Texas and Georgia, with 79% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,076 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,987 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,568 | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,492 | 1.1× |
Where Brayleigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brayleigh is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1999 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Brayleigh with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,590 babies since 1880, Brayleigh is the most given (68% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 69 babies (90%), again the 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 Brayleigh
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 Brayleigh and names like it
- Compare Brayleigh and BraleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrayleigh peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brayleigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Brayleigh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brayleigh alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.