Brealyn
Brealyn was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,477 among girls’ names; 190 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brealyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brealyn?
#13,477 among girls’ names, 2025
Brealyn rose from #16,887 in 2015 to #13,477 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.7 per million.
20 babies in 2011, the peak
Brealyn peaked in 2011, when 20 girls were given it, #6,376 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,477 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,888 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,430 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,397 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,939 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,944 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,226 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,887 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,064 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,778 | 10.3 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 11 | #9,824 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,376 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,951 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,557 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,596 | 7.4 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,021 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,008 | 4.3 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,561 | 4.9 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,771 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,411 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brealyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brealyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brealyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brealyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 188 Americans named Brealyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 245 people named Brealyn (223 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 163 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,013 babies since 1880, Brealyn is the seventh most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 102 babies (5.9%), again the seventh 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 Brealyn
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 Brealyn and names like it
- Compare Brealyn and BreelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrealyn peaked in 2011.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Brealyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brealyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.