Brilee
Brilee was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,160 among girls’ names; 1,363 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Brilee 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.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brilee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brilee?
#6,160 among girls’ names, 2025
Brilee fell from #2,653 in 2015 to #6,160 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 37.5 to 11.8 per million.
112 babies in 2012, the peak
Brilee peaked in 2012, when 112 babies were given it (107 girls, #1,877 among girls’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,160 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,041 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,886 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,812 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,739 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,564 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,025 | 21.4 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,166 | 30.0 |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,695 | 37.1 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,872 | 33.3 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,653 | 37.5 |
| 2014 | 75 | #2,420 | 42.0 |
| 2013 | 81 | #2,287 | 46.2 |
| 2012 | 107 | #1,877 | 60.8 |
| 2011 | 90 | #2,126 | 51.2 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,366 | 45.0 |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,320 | 45.7 |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,666 | 36.5 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,757 | 34.3 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,743 | 21.6 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,655 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,180 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,689 | 14.8 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,435 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,032 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,736 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,459 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,163 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,933 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,239 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,669 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,724 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,742 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brilee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,363 Americans recorded as Brilee, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 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 Brilee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brilee, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,363 Americans ever recorded as Brilee. The median Brilee alive today is 14 years old; half are between 10 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,134 people named Brilee (1,080 women and girls, 54 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,218 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 27 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 740 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 585 |
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 Brilee born?
The states with the most babies named Brilee are Texas, Tennessee and Kentucky, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 134 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 88 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Kentucky | 50 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Louisiana | 20 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 17 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 15 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Utah | 12 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Brilee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Brilee?
Brilee is a less common spelling of Brylee: SSA has recorded 1,363 Brilee and 11,663 Brylee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 73,931 babies since 1880, Brilee is the fifth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 2,488 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Brilee
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 Brilee and names like it
- Compare Brilee and BryleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrilee peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brilee since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Brilee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brilee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.