Brynli
Brynli was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,452 among girls’ names; 467 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brynli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brynli?
#8,452 among girls’ names, 2025
Brynli fell from #5,867 in 2015 to #8,452 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 7.5 per million.
38 babies in 2012, the peak
Brynli peaked in 2012, when 38 girls were given it, #3,998 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,452 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,045 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,997 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,666 | 13.4 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,012 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,894 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,211 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,569 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,946 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,021 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,867 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,676 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,037 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,998 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,375 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,039 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,604 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,198 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,650 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,030 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,073 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,133 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,150 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,248 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brynli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brynli 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 Brynli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brynli, and how old are they?
An estimated 464 Americans named Brynli 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 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 349 people named Brynli (349 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 369 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% 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).
How common is the spelling Brynli?
Brynli is a less common spelling of Brynlee: SSA has recorded 467 Brynli and 22,250 Brynlee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,850 babies since 1880, Brynli is the fourth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 1,540 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Brynli
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 Brynli and names like it
- Compare Brynli and BrynleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrynli peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brynli since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Brynli.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brynli alive today were born 2013-2025.
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