Brylen
Brylen was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,728 among boys’ names; 709 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brylen?
#4,728 among boys’ names, 2025
Brylen fell from #3,797 in 2015 to #4,728 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 12.3 per million.
54 babies in 2011, the peak
Brylen peaked in 2011, when 54 babies were given it (46 boys, #2,634 among boys’ names). The 21 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,728 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,705 | 17.4 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,764 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,870 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,376 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,934 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,578 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,001 | 21.5 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,900 | 22.2 |
| 2016 | 41 | #2,889 | 21.6 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,797 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 47 | #2,584 | 24.5 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,718 | 22.7 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,560 | 25.3 |
| 2011 | 46 | #2,634 | 24.2 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,186 | 18.2 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,407 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,568 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,518 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,500 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,708 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,062 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,104 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,886 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,782 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,811 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 709 Americans recorded as Brylen, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 21 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 Brylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brylen, and how old are they?
An estimated 703 Americans named Brylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 522 people named Brylen (76 women and girls, 446 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 580 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.
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, Brylen is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 63 babies (33%), the 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 Brylen
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 Brylen and names like it
- Compare Brylen and BrylanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrylen peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brylen since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Brylen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brylen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.