Brylan
Brylan was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,647 among boys’ names; 1,320 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Brylan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brylan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brylan?
#5,647 among boys’ names, 2025
Brylan fell from #2,135 in 2015 to #5,647 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 33.9 to 9.4 per million.
105 babies in 2012, the peak
Brylan peaked in 2012, when 105 babies were given it (93 boys, #1,660 among boys’ names). The 16 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,647 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,465 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,126 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 29 | #3,782 | 16.6 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,078 | 22.3 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,210 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 45 | #2,770 | 25.1 |
| 2018 | 44 | #2,756 | 24.2 |
| 2017 | 46 | #2,683 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,236 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 65 | #2,135 | 33.9 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,044 | 35.9 |
| 2013 | 70 | #1,969 | 37.0 |
| 2012 | 93 | #1,660 | 49.0 |
| 2011 | 90 | #1,668 | 47.4 |
| 2010 | 72 | #1,939 | 37.5 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,487 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,163 | 30.4 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,767 | 20.7 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,312 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 36 | #2,903 | 18.0 |
| 2004 | 37 | #2,789 | 18.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,291 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,564 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,424 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,073 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,601 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,908 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,318 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,177 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #5,978 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,052 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brylan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,320 Americans recorded as Brylan, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Brylan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brylan, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,320 Americans ever recorded as Brylan. The median Brylan alive today is 14 years old; half are between 10 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,022 people named Brylan (107 women and girls, 915 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,140 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 20 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 698 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 587 |
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,197 babies since 1880, Brylan is the most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 63 babies (25%), the third 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 Brylan
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 Brylan and names like it
- Compare Brylan and BrylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrylan peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brylan since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Brylan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brylan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.