Brynley
Brynley was given to 196 girls in 2025, #1,183 among girls’ names; 3,425 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,400 Americans named Brynley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brynley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brynley?
#1,183 among girls’ names, 2025
Brynley rose from #1,216 in 2015 to #1,183 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.11 to 0.12 per 1,000.
219 babies in 2017, the peak
Brynley peaked in 2017, when 219 girls were given it, #1,132 among girls’ names. The 196 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 196 | #1,183 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 184 | #1,265 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 169 | #1,340 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 206 | #1,173 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 140 | #1,506 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 167 | #1,320 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 184 | #1,259 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 176 | #1,294 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 219 | #1,132 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 191 | #1,272 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 204 | #1,216 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 191 | #1,262 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 203 | #1,186 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 199 | #1,221 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 193 | #1,237 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,504 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 122 | #1,779 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,519 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,490 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,866 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,039 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,407 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,819 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,480 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,605 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,856 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,505 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,478 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,066 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,574 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brynley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brynley has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brynley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brynley, and how old are they?
3,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,425 Americans ever recorded as Brynley. The median Brynley alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 2,273 people named Brynley (2,234 women and girls, 39 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,389 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 981 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,420 |
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 Brynley born?
The states with the most babies named Brynley are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,329 | 0.4× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,820 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #768 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 10 | #746 | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 10 | #615 | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #573 | 2.1× |
| Missouri | 8 | #652 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,162 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #910 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,273 | 1.0× |
Where Brynley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brynley is most over-represented in Utah: since 1992 it was given 2.1 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 Brynley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Brynley?
Brynley is a less common spelling of Brynlee: SSA has recorded 3,425 Brynley and 22,250 Brynlee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,509 babies since 1880, Brynley is the third most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 196 of their 2,263 babies (8.7%), again the third 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 Brynley
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 Brynley and names like it
- Compare Brynley and BrynleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrynley peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brynley since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Brynley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brynley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.