Brelyn
Brelyn is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,109 among girls’ names and #9,853 among boys’, #12,418 among all names counting both); 667 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brelyn?
#11,109 among girls’ names, 2025
Brelyn fell from #6,766 in 2015 to #11,109 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 5.0 per million.
36 babies in 2012, the peak
Brelyn peaked in 2012, when 36 babies were given it (31 girls, #4,623 among girls’ names). The 15 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 42% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,109 | 7 | #9,853 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,307 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,373 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,697 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,321 | 8 | #8,944 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,677 | 6 | #10,790 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,760 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,259 | 5 | #12,436 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,913 | 5 | #12,548 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,954 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,766 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,048 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,922 | 6 | #10,924 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,623 | 5 | #12,535 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,392 | 9 | #8,161 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,807 | 6 | #10,942 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,349 | 6 | #11,185 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,383 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,975 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,255 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,833 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,826 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,258 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,282 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,798 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,248 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,539 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,668 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,830 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,038 | 6 | #8,067 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,579 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,901 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,808 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,139 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,679 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,350 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,978 | 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 Brelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 667 Americans recorded as Brelyn, 90% are girls and 10% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brelyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 660 Americans named Brelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 570 people named Brelyn (484 women and girls, 86 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 571 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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, Brelyn is the fourth most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 102 babies (15%), the third most given that year.
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 Brelyn
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 Brelyn and names like it
- Compare Brelyn and BreelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrelyn peaked in 2012.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Brelyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brelyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.