Brylin
Brylin is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 11 boys were given it in 2025 (#13,499 among girls’ names and #7,267 among boys’, #11,436 among all names counting both); 563 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brylin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brylin?
#7,267 among boys’ names, 2025
Brylin fell from #6,727 in 2015 to #7,267 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 6.4 per million.
43 babies in 2012, the peak
Brylin peaked in 2012, when 43 babies were given it (28 boys, #3,724 among boys’ names). The 17 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 40% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,499 | 11 | #7,267 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 18 | #5,267 | |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,468 | 10 | #7,817 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,726 | 10 | #7,843 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,678 | 10 | #7,688 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,381 | 21 | #4,556 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,216 | 26 | #4,015 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,592 | 13 | #6,399 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,845 | 25 | #4,117 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,661 | 20 | #4,800 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,688 | 12 | #6,727 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,049 | 22 | #4,408 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,450 | 24 | #4,074 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,886 | 28 | #3,724 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,838 | 20 | #4,677 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,425 | 20 | #4,697 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,123 | 12 | #6,859 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,197 | 8 | #9,116 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,957 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,460 | 8 | #8,832 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,252 | 12 | #6,277 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #11,606 | |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,420 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Brylin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 563 Americans recorded as Brylin, 40% are girls and 60% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brylin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brylin, and how old are they?
An estimated 558 Americans named Brylin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 416 people named Brylin (190 women and girls, 226 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 449 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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, Brylin is the fourth most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 63 babies (27%), the second 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 Brylin
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 Brylin and names like it
- Compare Brylin and BrylanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrylin peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brylin since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Brylin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brylin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.