Brinlee
Brinlee was given to 112 girls in 2025, #1,798 among girls’ names; 2,850 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,830 Americans named Brinlee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brinlee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brinlee?
#1,798 among girls’ names, 2025
Brinlee fell from #1,338 in 2015 to #1,798 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 99.2 to 69.7 per million.
181 babies in 2017, the peak
Brinlee peaked in 2017, when 181 girls were given it, #1,299 among girls’ names. The 112 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112 | #1,798 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 117 | #1,735 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,856 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 172 | #1,355 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 134 | #1,568 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 159 | #1,369 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 142 | #1,523 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 152 | #1,448 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 181 | #1,299 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 178 | #1,332 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 177 | #1,338 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 168 | #1,376 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,795 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 119 | #1,734 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 151 | #1,481 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,947 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 88 | #2,230 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,487 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 71 | #2,602 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,610 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,969 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,693 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,880 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 32 | #3,991 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,705 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,515 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,791 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,081 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,304 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,769 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,720 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,623 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brinlee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brinlee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brinlee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brinlee, and how old are they?
2,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,850 Americans ever recorded as Brinlee. The median Brinlee alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,949 people named Brinlee (1,926 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,074 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 25 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 903 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,900 |
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 Brinlee born?
The states with the most babies named Brinlee are Texas, Pennsylvania and Michigan, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,934 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,131 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 7 | #979 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,308 | 0.7× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #721 | 3.7× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #769 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,157 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 5 | #958 | 0.7× |
Where Brinlee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brinlee is most over-represented in Utah: since 1992 it was given 6.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Brinlee 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 Brinlee?
Brinlee is a less common spelling of Brynlee: SSA has recorded 2,850 Brinlee and 22,250 Brynlee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,695 babies since 1880, Brinlee is the fourth most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 112 of their 2,236 babies (5.0%), the fifth 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 Brinlee
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 Brinlee and names like it
- Compare Brinlee and BrynleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrinlee peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brinlee since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Brinlee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brinlee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.