Brynn
Brynn was given to 767 girls in 2025, #407 among girls’ names; 30,211 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 29,800 Americans named Brynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brynn is “a female given name from Welsh.”
Variant of Bryn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brynn?
#407 among girls’ names, 2025
Brynn fell from #259 in 2015 to #407 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.69 to 0.48 per 1,000.
1,671 babies in 2011, the peak
Brynn peaked in 2011, when 1,671 babies were given it (1,665 girls, #192 among girls’ names). The 774 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 46% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 767 | #407 | 0.48 |
| 2024 | 820 | #383 | 0.51 |
| 2023 | 741 | #414 | 0.46 |
| 2022 | 806 | #388 | 0.49 |
| 2021 | 847 | #361 | 0.52 |
| 2020 | 930 | #333 | 0.58 |
| 2019 | 1,056 | #307 | 0.63 |
| 2018 | 1,087 | #308 | 0.64 |
| 2017 | 1,095 | #297 | 0.63 |
| 2016 | 1,238 | #257 | 0.70 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,229 | #259 | 0.69 |
| 2014 | 1,257 | #262 | 0.70 |
| 2013 | 1,487 | #214 | 0.85 |
| 2012 | 1,656 | #189 | 0.94 |
| 2011 | 1,665 | #192 | 0.95 |
| 2010 | 1,140 | #287 | 0.64 |
| 2009 | 949 | #344 | 0.52 |
| 2008 | 1,039 | #325 | 0.55 |
| 2007 | 925 | #351 | 0.48 |
| 2006 | 800 | #401 | 0.42 |
| 2005 | 736 | #420 | 0.40 |
| 2004 | 879 | #359 | 0.48 |
| 2003 | 1,067 | #291 | 0.58 |
| 2002 | 443 | #585 | 0.25 |
| 2001 | 386 | #653 | 0.21 |
| 2000 | 412 | #616 | 0.23 |
| 1999 | 452 | #558 | 0.25 |
| 1998 | 306 | #721 | 0.17 |
| 1997 | 167 | #1,118 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 175 | #1,054 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 178 | #1,020 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 163 | #1,098 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 161 | #1,114 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 143 | #1,215 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 144 | #1,198 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 178 | #1,019 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 177 | #976 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 127 | #1,189 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 120 | #1,203 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 168 | #945 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 168 | #933 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 210 | #766 | 0.12 |
| 1983 | 226 | #729 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 294 | #611 | 0.17 |
| 1981 | 147 | #992 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 161 | #927 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 84 | #1,443 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,107 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,610 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,552 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,965 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,016 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,355 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,291 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,591 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,946 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,922 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,806 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,068 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,576 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,561 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,047 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,350 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,568 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,333 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,668 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,225 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,439 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,919 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,312 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,635 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,840 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,705 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,550 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,346 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,249 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 30,211 Americans recorded as Brynn, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 767 girls and 7 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brynn, and how old are they?
29,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 30,211 Americans ever recorded as Brynn. The median Brynn alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 24,675 people named Brynn (24,352 women and girls, 323 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 25,227 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 122 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 492 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,820 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13,400 |
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 Brynn born?
The states with the most babies named Brynn are California, Pennsylvania and Texas, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 61 | #538 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 61 | #185 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 43 | #704 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 36 | #230 | 1.0× |
| New York | 33 | #510 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 30 | #373 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 30 | #295 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 30 | #584 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 27 | #407 | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 26 | #212 | 2.3× |
Where Brynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brynn is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1943 it was given 2.3 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 Brynn 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 42,418 babies since 1880, Brynn is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 774 of their 889 babies (87%), 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 Brynn
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 Brynn and names like it
- Compare Brynn and BrynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrynn peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brynn since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Brynn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Brynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.