Brynlie
Brynlie was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,162 among girls’ names; 938 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 Brynlie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brynlie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brynlie 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 Brynlie?
#6,162 among girls’ names, 2025
Brynlie fell from #2,814 in 2015 to #6,162 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.7 to 11.8 per million.
74 babies in 2011, the peak
Brynlie peaked in 2011, when 74 girls were given it, #2,457 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,162 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,786 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,462 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,491 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,690 | 25.0 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,849 | 22.9 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,404 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,355 | 27.6 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,671 | 37.6 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,650 | 37.2 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,814 | 34.7 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,009 | 31.3 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,809 | 34.8 |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,550 | 40.3 |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,457 | 42.1 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,422 | 26.4 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,952 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,471 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,359 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,577 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,568 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,355 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,604 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,303 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,801 | 7.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brynlie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brynlie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brynlie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brynlie, and how old are they?
An estimated 931 Americans named Brynlie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 712 people named Brynlie (712 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 776 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 32,274 babies since 1880, Brynlie is the fifth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 1,761 babies (1.1%), again the fifth 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 Brynlie
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 Brynlie and names like it
- Compare Brynlie and BrynleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrynlie peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brynlie since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Brynlie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Brynlie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brynlie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.