Brylee
Brylee was given to 255 girls in 2025, #992 among girls’ names; 11,663 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,600 Americans named Brylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brylee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brylee is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Modern fanciful spelling of Briley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brylee?
#992 among girls’ names, 2025
Brylee fell from #477 in 2015 to #992 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.38 to 0.16 per 1,000.
808 babies in 2012, the peak
Brylee peaked in 2012, when 808 babies were given it (768 girls, #408 among girls’ names). The 263 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 33% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 255 | #992 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 250 | #1,017 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 229 | #1,082 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 288 | #942 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 285 | #932 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 347 | #782 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 378 | #746 | 0.23 |
| 2018 | 437 | #672 | 0.26 |
| 2017 | 526 | #573 | 0.30 |
| 2016 | 601 | #519 | 0.34 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 678 | #477 | 0.38 |
| 2014 | 677 | #469 | 0.38 |
| 2013 | 702 | #436 | 0.40 |
| 2012 | 768 | #408 | 0.44 |
| 2011 | 771 | #411 | 0.44 |
| 2010 | 706 | #435 | 0.40 |
| 2009 | 752 | #425 | 0.41 |
| 2008 | 581 | #526 | 0.31 |
| 2007 | 448 | #662 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 301 | #883 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 258 | #954 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 178 | #1,230 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 171 | #1,233 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 138 | #1,396 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 107 | #1,685 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 105 | #1,676 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 57 | #2,500 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,760 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,228 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,466 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,868 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,017 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,686 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,579 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,690 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,663 Americans recorded as Brylee, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 255 girls and 8 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brylee, and how old are they?
11,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,663 Americans ever recorded as Brylee. The median Brylee alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 8,736 people named Brylee (8,333 women and girls, 403 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,987 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 84 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,710 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,770 |
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 Brylee born?
The states with the most babies named Brylee are Texas, Tennessee and Louisiana, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 25 | #1,098 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 17 | #457 | 2.5× |
| Louisiana | 15 | #302 | 2.5× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,066 | 0.6× |
| Kentucky | 13 | #342 | 2.2× |
| California | 11 | #1,858 | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #524 | 0.4× |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #499 | 2.9× |
| Utah | 8 | #497 | 2.5× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,101 | 1.1× |
Where Brylee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brylee is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1991 it was given 2.9 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 Brylee 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 24,748 babies since 1880, Brylee is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 263 of their 447 babies (59%), again the 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 Brylee
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 Brylee and names like it
- Compare Brylee and BrileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrylee peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brylee since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Brylee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Brylee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brylee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.