Brelynn
Brelynn was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,371 among girls’ names; 1,060 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Brelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brelynn?
#4,371 among girls’ names, 2025
Brelynn fell from #3,096 in 2015 to #4,371 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 30.3 to 19.9 per million.
76 babies in 2016, the peak
Brelynn peaked in 2016, when 76 girls were given it, #2,428 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,371 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,785 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,124 | 21.8 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,608 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,445 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,152 | 30.9 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,234 | 29.2 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,862 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,567 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 76 | #2,428 | 42.9 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,096 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,281 | 27.4 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,979 | 31.9 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,872 | 34.1 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,057 | 31.3 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,421 | 26.4 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,029 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,462 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,703 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,164 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,572 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,124 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,444 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,594 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,464 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,018 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,540 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,370 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,124 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,809 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,681 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,711 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,749 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,547 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,431 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,221 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,617 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brelynn has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 37 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brelynn, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,060 Americans ever recorded as Brelynn. The median Brelynn alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 736 people named Brelynn (707 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 833 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 60 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 397 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 594 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,512 babies since 1880, Brelynn is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 95 babies (34%), the 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 Brelynn
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 Brelynn and names like it
- Compare Brelynn and BreelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrelynn peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brelynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Brelynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brelynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.