Brenley
Brenley was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,264 among girls’ names; 1,058 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Brenley 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 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brenley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brenley?
#5,264 among girls’ names, 2025
Brenley fell from #3,185 in 2015 to #5,264 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.1 to 14.9 per million.
71 babies in 2017, the peak
Brenley peaked in 2017, when 71 girls were given it, #2,519 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,264 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,290 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,715 | 25.6 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,481 | 27.4 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,627 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,785 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,937 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,652 | 38.2 |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,519 | 41.1 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,337 | 27.1 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #3,185 | 29.1 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,893 | 33.0 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,129 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,374 | 27.3 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,915 | 33.5 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,369 | 27.0 |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,164 | 28.8 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,463 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,740 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,840 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,045 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,892 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,963 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,889 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,853 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,851 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,732 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,371 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,432 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brenley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,058 Americans recorded as Brenley, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 24 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brenley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brenley, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,058 Americans ever recorded as Brenley. The median Brenley alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 842 people named Brenley (781 women and girls, 61 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 824 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 422 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 628 |
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,030 babies since 1880, Brenley is the most given (52% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 76 babies (32%), the second 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 Brenley
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 Brenley and names like it
- Compare Brenley and BrenleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Brenley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brenley alive today were born 2013-2025.
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