Brylynn
Brylynn is given to both girls and boys: 19 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,161 among girls’ names and #12,334 among boys’, #9,131 among all names counting both); 532 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brylynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brylynn?
#6,161 among girls’ names, 2025
Brylynn fell from #4,316 in 2015 to #6,161 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 11.8 per million.
37 babies in 2013, the peak
Brylynn peaked in 2013, when 37 girls were given it, #4,014 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 65% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,161 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,040 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,312 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,027 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,595 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,902 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,360 | 19.1 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,472 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,493 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,549 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,316 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,118 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,014 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,934 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,482 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,629 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,923 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,935 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,110 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,403 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,993 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,187 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brylynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 532 Americans recorded as Brylynn, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brylynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brylynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 528 Americans named Brylynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 376 people named Brylynn (349 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 403 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,511 babies since 1880, Brylynn is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 63 babies (38%), 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 Brylynn
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 Brylynn and names like it
- Compare Brylynn and BrilynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brylynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Brylynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brylynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
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