Brilynn
Brilynn was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,435 among girls’ names; 1,097 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Brilynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brilynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brilynn?
#5,435 among girls’ names, 2025
Brilynn fell from #2,747 in 2015 to #5,435 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.9 to 14.3 per million.
83 babies in 2013, the peak
Brilynn peaked in 2013, when 83 girls were given it, #2,240 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,435 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,291 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,203 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,321 | 29.3 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,933 | 34.7 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,231 | 29.7 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,236 | 29.2 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,966 | 32.3 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,669 | 37.6 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,766 | 35.0 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,747 | 35.9 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,586 | 38.1 |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,240 | 47.3 |
| 2012 | 74 | #2,477 | 42.0 |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,352 | 44.9 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,322 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,411 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,594 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,060 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,107 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,308 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,020 | 5.4 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,410 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,880 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,886 | 5.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,873 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brilynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,097 Americans recorded as Brilynn, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 23 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 Brilynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brilynn, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,097 Americans ever recorded as Brilynn. The median Brilynn alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 749 people named Brilynn (722 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 845 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 9 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 369 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 711 |
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 2,720 babies since 1880, Brilynn is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 69 babies (33%), 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 Brilynn
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 Brilynn and names like it
- Compare Brilynn and BrylynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Brilynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brilynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
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