Braylynn
Braylynn was given to 61 girls in 2025, #2,783 among girls’ names; 1,816 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,800 Americans named Braylynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braylynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Braylynn?
#2,783 among girls’ names, 2025
Braylynn fell from #1,897 in 2015 to #2,783 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 59.9 to 38.0 per million.
134 babies in 2014, the peak
Braylynn peaked in 2014, when 134 babies were given it (118 girls, #1,757 among girls’ names). The 67 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,783 | 6 | #10,868 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,049 | 9 | #8,404 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,472 | 6 | #11,020 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,449 | 7 | #9,976 |
| 2021 | 106 | #1,875 | 9 | #8,269 |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,198 | 15 | #5,740 |
| 2019 | 96 | #2,001 | 8 | #9,012 |
| 2018 | 94 | #2,063 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,782 | 14 | #6,093 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,831 | 12 | #6,783 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 107 | #1,897 | 17 | #5,322 |
| 2014 | 118 | #1,757 | 16 | #5,507 |
| 2013 | 98 | #1,990 | 7 | #9,781 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,163 | 13 | #6,353 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,196 | 13 | #6,295 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,943 | 14 | #6,075 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,856 | 6 | #11,178 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,193 | 5 | #12,776 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,582 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,974 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,043 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,532 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,559 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,292 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,231 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,023 | 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 Braylynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,816 Americans recorded as Braylynn, 90% are girls and 10% boys. In 2025 it went to 61 girls and 6 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Braylynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braylynn, and how old are they?
1,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,816 Americans ever recorded as Braylynn. The median Braylynn alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,162 people named Braylynn (1,053 women and girls, 109 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,349 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 505 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,300 |
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 Braylynn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,303 | 0.3× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,377 | 0.4× |
Where Braylynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Braylynn is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1997 it was given 1.5 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 Braylynn 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 28,746 babies since 1880, Braylynn is the third most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 67 of their 758 babies (8.8%), 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.
More about Braylynn and names like it
- Compare Braylynn and BraelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBraylynn peaked in 2014.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braylynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Braylynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Braylynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.