Brynna
Brynna was given to 20 girls in 2025, #5,954 among girls’ names; 3,102 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,070 Americans named Brynna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brynna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brynna?
#5,954 among girls’ names, 2025
Brynna fell from #2,528 in 2015 to #5,954 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.8 to 12.4 per million.
171 babies in 2011, the peak
Brynna peaked in 2011, when 171 girls were given it, #1,349 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,954 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,829 | 13.0 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,888 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,126 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,258 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,022 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,343 | 28.0 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,587 | 39.4 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,754 | 35.9 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,619 | 37.8 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,528 | 39.8 |
| 2014 | 96 | #2,041 | 53.7 |
| 2013 | 121 | #1,716 | 69.0 |
| 2012 | 156 | #1,459 | 88.6 |
| 2011 | 171 | #1,349 | 97.2 |
| 2010 | 128 | #1,660 | 72.0 |
| 2009 | 144 | #1,564 | 78.4 |
| 2008 | 133 | #1,678 | 70.3 |
| 2007 | 139 | #1,605 | 72.3 |
| 2006 | 99 | #2,005 | 52.1 |
| 2005 | 121 | #1,646 | 65.5 |
| 2004 | 135 | #1,488 | 73.5 |
| 2003 | 156 | #1,318 | 85.4 |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,750 | 57.3 |
| 2001 | 88 | #1,955 | 48.9 |
| 2000 | 80 | #2,055 | 44.1 |
| 1999 | 102 | #1,636 | 57.5 |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,084 | 39.6 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,230 | 35.0 |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,476 | 29.1 |
| 1995 | 64 | #2,099 | 36.4 |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,410 | 29.7 |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,638 | 25.4 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,780 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,516 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,020 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,575 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,708 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,262 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,900 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,745 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,882 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,707 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,416 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,601 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,962 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,131 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,808 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,456 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,566 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brynna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brynna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brynna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brynna, and how old are they?
3,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,102 Americans ever recorded as Brynna. The median Brynna alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 2,862 people named Brynna (2,859 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,911 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 30 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 470 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,870 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 697 |
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 Brynna born?
The states with the most babies named Brynna are Texas, California and Indiana, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 245 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 175 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 103 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 102 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 79 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Minnesota | 70 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 66 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Kansas | 47 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 47 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 42 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Brynna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brynna is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1973 it was given 1.4 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 Brynna 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 400,851 babies since 1880, Brynna is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 1,982 babies (1.0%), again the sixth 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 Brynna
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 Brynna and names like it
- Compare Brynna and BriannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrynna peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brynna since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Brynna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brynna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.