Brynlee
Brynlee was given to 1,282 girls in 2025, #243 among girls’ names; 22,250 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,100 Americans named Brynlee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brynlee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brynlee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brynlee is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Modern fanciful spelling of Brinley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brynlee?
#243 among girls’ names, 2025
Brynlee rose from #244 in 2015 to #243 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.74 to 0.80 per 1,000.
1,583 babies in 2019, the peak
Brynlee peaked in 2019, when 1,583 babies were given it (1,578 girls, #187 among girls’ names). The 1,282 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,282 | #243 | 0.80 |
| 2024 | 1,343 | #230 | 0.83 |
| 2023 | 1,214 | #256 | 0.76 |
| 2022 | 1,424 | #203 | 0.87 |
| 2021 | 1,577 | #188 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 1,501 | #191 | 0.93 |
| 2019 | 1,578 | #187 | 0.94 |
| 2018 | 1,463 | #210 | 0.86 |
| 2017 | 1,417 | #218 | 0.82 |
| 2016 | 1,434 | #223 | 0.81 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,319 | #244 | 0.74 |
| 2014 | 1,399 | #235 | 0.78 |
| 2013 | 1,185 | #269 | 0.68 |
| 2012 | 966 | #324 | 0.55 |
| 2011 | 846 | #379 | 0.48 |
| 2010 | 586 | #511 | 0.33 |
| 2009 | 427 | #681 | 0.23 |
| 2008 | 307 | #903 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 225 | #1,142 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 188 | #1,276 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 131 | #1,553 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 111 | #1,734 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,949 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,557 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,011 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,947 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,592 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,762 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,028 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,743 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,734 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brynlee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brynlee has been given almost only to girls: 21 boys in 31 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brynlee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brynlee, and how old are they?
22,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 22,250 Americans ever recorded as Brynlee. The median Brynlee alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 12,747 people named Brynlee (12,704 women and girls, 43 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,191 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 | 12 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 18,000 |
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 Brynlee born?
The states with the most babies named Brynlee are Texas, Ohio and Florida, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 122 | #284 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 64 | #175 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 59 | #312 | 0.5× |
| California | 58 | #556 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 53 | #212 | 1.2× |
| Kentucky | 50 | #78 | 1.6× |
| Missouri | 47 | #127 | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 44 | #251 | 0.7× |
| Iowa | 42 | #56 | 2.3× |
| Michigan | 41 | #219 | 1.1× |
Where Brynlee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brynlee is most over-represented in Utah: since 1995 it was given 3.6 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 Brynlee 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 46,509 babies since 1880, Brynlee is the most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,282 of their 2,263 babies (57%), 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 Brynlee
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 Brynlee and names like it
- Compare Brynlee and BrinleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrynlee peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brynlee since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Brynlee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Brynlee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brynlee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.