Brailey
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · Last seen for boys in 2000 at #10,349
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 79 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,176since 1994
Brailey over time
Rank among girls' names. Brailey has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #8,362 | 12 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,126 | 25 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,548 | 29 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,499 | 44 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,326 | 48 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,211 | 51 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,041 | 55 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,597 | 68 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,356 | 79 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,434 | 75 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,841 | 61 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,465 | 77 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,017 | 57 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,289 | 51 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,669 | 42 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,730 | 39 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,387 | 31 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,536 | 28 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,595 | 37 | — | |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 | — | |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 | — | |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | — | |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | — | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brailey! It came in at #8,122, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1995, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Brailey is popular in 1994
No state had 5 or more girls named Brailey in 1994, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Brailey
- 1,720 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #8,362)
- 3,814 spots since 2020 (#4,548 → #8,362)
- 5,151 spots since 2015 (#3,211 → #8,362)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2012 at #2,356 (79 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,292 girls born in 2012 were named Brailey (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 49.1% of all girls named Brailey (578) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 66 | #5,896 (1999) | #8,249 |
| 2000s | 400 | #2,465 (2009) | #4,026 |
| 2010s | 578 | #2,356 (2012) | #2,983 |
| 2020s | 132 | #4,548 (2020) | #5,846 |
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.
Brailey in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 178,575 of them was named Brailey, which outranked 48.5% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,604Zahava11
- #7,604Zalika11
- #7,604Zion11
- #8,122Brailey10
- #8,122Aalyah10
- #8,122Aamina10
- #8,122Abbe10
- #8,804Aalliyah9
- #8,804Aarin9
- #8,804Aasha9
Tied with 681 names at #8,122; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.