Brynleigh
Brynleigh was given to 338 girls in 2025, #807 among girls’ names; 4,107 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,080 Americans named Brynleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brynleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brynleigh?
#807 among girls’ names, 2025
Brynleigh rose from #1,164 in 2015 to #807 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.12 to 0.21 per 1,000.
385 babies in 2022, the peak
Brynleigh peaked in 2022, when 385 girls were given it, #752 among girls’ names. The 338 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 338 | #807 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 352 | #798 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 373 | #755 | 0.23 |
| 2022 | 385 | #752 | 0.23 |
| 2021 | 303 | #891 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 300 | #888 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 238 | #1,063 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 294 | #914 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 233 | #1,088 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 207 | #1,201 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 217 | #1,164 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 197 | #1,235 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 177 | #1,323 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 145 | #1,525 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,844 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,456 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,884 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,105 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,932 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,029 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,200 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,270 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,147 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,751 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brynleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brynleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brynleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brynleigh, and how old are they?
4,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,107 Americans ever recorded as Brynleigh. The median Brynleigh alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 1,752 people named Brynleigh (1,752 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,118 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 489 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,590 |
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 Brynleigh born?
The states with the most babies named Brynleigh are Texas, Florida and Ohio, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 26 | #1,067 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 23 | #718 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 17 | #597 | 1.4× |
| Kentucky | 17 | #261 | 1.7× |
| Indiana | 16 | #425 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #624 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 16 | #482 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 16 | #506 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #695 | 1.0× |
| Arkansas | 14 | #216 | 1.6× |
Where Brynleigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brynleigh is most over-represented in Alabama: since 2001 it was given 2.5 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 Brynleigh 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,835 babies since 1880, Brynleigh is the most given (70% of them). In 2025 it was given to 338 of their 451 babies (75%), again the most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brynleigh | 4,107 | 338 | 2022 |
| Brinleigh | 914 | 44 | 2017 |
| Brynnleigh | 814 | 69 | 2022 |
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 Brynleigh
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 Brynleigh and names like it
- Compare Brynleigh and BrinleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBrynleigh peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brynleigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Brynleigh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brynleigh alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.