Braylin
Braylin is given to both girls and boys: 25 girls and 70 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,120 among girls’ names and #2,095 among boys’, #3,659 among all names counting both); 4,785 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,740 Americans named Braylin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braylin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Braylin?
#2,095 among boys’ names, 2025
Braylin fell from #1,032 in 2015 to #2,095 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.10 to 0.04 per 1,000.
307 babies in 2011, the peak
Braylin peaked in 2011, when 307 babies were given it (220 boys, #916 among boys’ names). The 95 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 31% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,120 | 70 | #2,095 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,048 | 78 | #1,985 |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,104 | 92 | #1,766 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,224 | 92 | #1,783 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,257 | 133 | #1,378 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,229 | 108 | #1,535 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,095 | 121 | #1,442 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,786 | 138 | #1,319 |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,577 | 146 | #1,253 |
| 2016 | 94 | #2,086 | 186 | #1,063 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 83 | #2,260 | 196 | #1,032 |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,925 | 200 | #1,020 |
| 2013 | 105 | #1,906 | 174 | #1,076 |
| 2012 | 112 | #1,810 | 186 | #1,037 |
| 2011 | 87 | #2,174 | 220 | #916 |
| 2010 | 109 | #1,862 | 163 | #1,138 |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,919 | 185 | #1,036 |
| 2008 | 92 | #2,176 | 126 | #1,356 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,487 | 89 | #1,701 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,626 | 88 | #1,628 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,882 | 75 | #1,752 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,719 | 35 | #2,894 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,257 | 32 | #2,993 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,921 | 17 | #4,522 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,769 | 25 | #3,418 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,542 | 25 | #3,308 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,548 | 18 | #3,997 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,603 | 16 | #4,221 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,007 | 15 | #4,265 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,688 | 18 | #3,687 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,695 | 20 | #3,311 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 14 | #4,316 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 6 | #7,736 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 9 | #5,701 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,000 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #8,254 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 9 | #5,202 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 9 | #4,824 |
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 Braylin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,785 Americans recorded as Braylin, 34% are girls and 66% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Braylin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braylin, and how old are they?
4,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,785 Americans ever recorded as Braylin. The median Braylin alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 3,375 people named Braylin (1,245 women and girls, 2,130 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,957 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 107 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,540 |
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 Braylin born?
The states with the most babies named Braylin are Florida, Georgia and Texas, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,498 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,379 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,133 | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,297 | 1.3× |
Where Braylin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Braylin is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1988 it was given 2.0 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 boys’ 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 Braylin 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,548 babies since 1880, Braylin is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 95 of their 862 babies (11%), again the third 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 Braylin
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 Braylin and names like it
- Compare Braylin and BraylonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBraylin peaked in 2011.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braylin since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Braylin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Braylin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.