Brinley
Brinley was given to 481 girls in 2025, #608 among girls’ names; 13,641 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,500 Americans named Brinley 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 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brinley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brinley mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brinley is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname.”
Possibly a variant of Brindley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brinley?
#608 among girls’ names, 2025
Brinley fell from #408 in 2015 to #608 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.44 to 0.30 per 1,000.
1,007 babies in 2017, the peak
Brinley peaked in 2017, when 1,007 babies were given it (1,000 girls, #328 among girls’ names). The 481 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 481 | #608 | 0.30 |
| 2024 | 535 | #564 | 0.33 |
| 2023 | 622 | #492 | 0.39 |
| 2022 | 699 | #449 | 0.43 |
| 2021 | 799 | #394 | 0.49 |
| 2020 | 857 | #362 | 0.53 |
| 2019 | 812 | #386 | 0.48 |
| 2018 | 955 | #338 | 0.56 |
| 2017 | 1,000 | #328 | 0.58 |
| 2016 | 983 | #339 | 0.55 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 785 | #408 | 0.44 |
| 2014 | 696 | #459 | 0.39 |
| 2013 | 596 | #505 | 0.34 |
| 2012 | 613 | #500 | 0.35 |
| 2011 | 547 | #530 | 0.31 |
| 2010 | 444 | #659 | 0.25 |
| 2009 | 362 | #781 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 232 | #1,115 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 229 | #1,129 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 222 | #1,121 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 198 | #1,164 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 158 | #1,345 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 136 | #1,445 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 135 | #1,418 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,859 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 77 | #2,104 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 60 | #2,423 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,019 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,392 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,892 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,707 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,691 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,562 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,148 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,043 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,570 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,489 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,508 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brinley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,641 Americans recorded as Brinley, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 481 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 Brinley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brinley, and how old are they?
13,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,641 Americans ever recorded as Brinley. The median Brinley alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 9,080 people named Brinley (8,908 women and girls, 172 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,771 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 | 95 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,840 |
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 Brinley born?
The states with the most babies named Brinley are Texas, Michigan and Pennsylvania, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 33 | #880 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 26 | #342 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #434 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 21 | #775 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 20 | #541 | 0.9× |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #277 | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 18 | #567 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 18 | #588 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 17 | #355 | 1.3× |
| Kentucky | 15 | #287 | 1.4× |
Where Brinley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brinley is most over-represented in Utah: since 1987 it was given 4.2 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 Brinley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 44,709 babies since 1880, Brinley is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 481 of their 2,155 babies (22%), again the second 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 Brinley
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 Brinley and names like it
- Compare Brinley and BrynleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrinley peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brinley since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Brinley: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Brinley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brinley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.