Braelynn
#837 for girls in 2025, 325 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 97.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 806 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,829since 1989
Braelynn over time
Rank among girls' names. Braelynn has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #837 | 325 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #810 | 347 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #666 | 443 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #573 | 522 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #470 | 663 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #445 | 694 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #457 | 681 | #5,813 | 15 |
| 2018 | #396 | 778 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #389 | 806 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #411 | 809 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #466 | 686 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #564 | 543 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #628 | 446 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #602 | 475 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #708 | 393 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #892 | 297 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #1,032 | 252 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #1,313 | 189 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #1,655 | 134 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,267 | 84 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,524 | 68 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,391 | 44 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 | — | |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,661 | 18 | — | |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | — | |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | — | |
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| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
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| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Braelynn! It came in at #12,362, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1991, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Braelynn is popular in 2007
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Indiana#686 · 1 in 3,682
- Ohio#800 · 1 in 5,214
- Wisconsin#824 · 1 in 5,100
- Louisiana#829 · 1 in 4,235
- Minnesota#874 · 1 in 5,361
Best ever in a state: #64 in Wyoming, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | #686 | 9 | 1 in 3,682 |
| Ohio | #800 | 11 | 1 in 5,214 |
| Wisconsin | #824 | 5 | 1 in 5,100 |
| Louisiana | #829 | 5 | 1 in 4,235 |
| Minnesota | #874 | 5 | 1 in 5,361 |
| Michigan | #992 | 7 | 1 in 6,530 |
| Arizona | #1,235 | 5 | 1 in 7,593 |
| Georgia | #1,589 | 5 | 1 in 10,844 |
| Illinois | #1,712 | 5 | 1 in 13,545 |
| Texas | #2,104 | 9 | 1 in 18,795 |
| California | #3,245 | 6 | 1 in 39,375 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Braelynn
- 27 spots since 2024 (#810 → #837)
- 392 spots since 2020 (#445 → #837)
- 371 spots since 2015 (#466 → #837)
- Biggest jump: 184 spots in 2011 (#892 → #708)
- Biggest drop: 144 spots in 2024 (#666 → #810)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2017 at #389 (806 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,142 girls born in 2017 were named Braelynn (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,945 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 60.2% of all girls named Braelynn (5,914) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #12,362 (1989) | #12,362 |
| 1990s | 48 | #5,661 (1999) | #9,528 |
| 2000s | 868 | #1,032 (2009) | #3,191 |
| 2010s | 5,914 | #389 (2017) | #551 |
| 2020s | 2,994 | #445 (2020) | #634 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Braelynn in 2007
Top girls' names in 2007
More about 2007
girls
1,922,617 girls got a published name in 2007; 1 in 14,348 of them was named Braelynn, which outranked 92.0% of the 20,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,645Lesli135
- #1,645Nallely135
- #1,645Sawyer135
- #1,655Braelynn134
- #1,655Azucena134
- #1,655Berkley134
- #1,655Josslyn134
- #1,666Elly133
- #1,666Jasmyne133
- #1,666Kamaria133
Tied with 10 names at #1,655; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.