Brin
Brin was last recorded in 2021, when 8 babies were given it; 450 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,299, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 2003, the peak
Brin peaked in 2003, when 21 girls were given it, #5,615 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | #11,299 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,528 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,957 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,718 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,887 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,136 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,244 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,370 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,939 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,380 | 11.4 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | #6,603 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,323 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,487 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,602 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,104 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,546 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,412 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,128 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,615 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,492 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,171 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,265 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,309 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,302 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,934 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,909 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,874 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,016 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,678 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,146 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,406 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,160 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,197 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,530 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,832 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,859 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,269 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,474 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,673 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 450 Americans recorded as Brin, 92% are girls and 8% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brin, and how old are they?
An estimated 442 Americans named Brin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 710 people named Brin (480 women and girls, 230 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 433 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Brin rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Brin?
Brin is a less common spelling of Brynn: SSA has recorded 450 Brin and 30,211 Brynn since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 41,771 babies since 1880, Brin is the fifth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 889 babies recorded by SSA was a Brin (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Brin
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 Brin and names like it
- Compare Brin and BrynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrin peaked in 2003.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Brin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.