Brilyn
Brilyn was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,563 among girls’ names; 433 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brilyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brilyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brilyn is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brilyn?
#9,563 among girls’ names, 2025
Brilyn rose from #9,587 in 2015 to #9,563 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 6.2 per million.
42 babies in 2013, the peak
Brilyn peaked in 2013, when 42 babies were given it (37 girls, #4,013 among girls’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,563 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,671 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,128 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,155 | 5 | #12,635 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,432 | 5 | #12,423 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,118 | 5 | #12,300 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,078 | 5 | #12,422 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,230 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,360 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,221 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,587 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,184 | 5 | #12,352 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,013 | 5 | #12,407 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,579 | 8 | #8,975 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,973 | 7 | #9,749 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,954 | 8 | #8,914 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,351 | 7 | #10,013 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,800 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,103 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,201 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,797 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,523 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,169 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,879 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,924 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,301 | 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 Brilyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 433 Americans recorded as Brilyn, 86% are girls and 14% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 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 Brilyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brilyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 430 Americans named Brilyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 352 people named Brilyn (286 women and girls, 66 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 350 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,651 babies since 1880, Brilyn is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 69 babies (14%), again the third 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 Brilyn
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 Brilyn and names like it
- Compare Brilyn and BrilynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrilyn peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brilyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Brilyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brilyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.