Braylynn
#2,778 for girls in 2025, 61 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 89.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 118 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,632since 1997
Braylynn over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,778 | 61 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #4,039 | 36 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #2,466 | 72 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #2,445 | 74 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #1,871 | 106 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #2,196 | 82 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #1,999 | 96 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #2,059 | 94 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #1,779 | 117 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #1,828 | 113 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #1,894 | 107 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #1,757 | 118 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #1,990 | 98 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #2,160 | 87 | #6,306 | 13 |
| 2011 | #2,190 | 86 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #2,938 | 58 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #2,852 | 61 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #4,179 | 37 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | — | |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 | — | |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | — | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | — | |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Braylynn! It came in at #13,724, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1997–2000, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Braylynn is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Indiana#735 · 1 in 3,787
- Louisiana#755 · 1 in 3,498
- Oklahoma#784 · 1 in 3,358
- Tennessee#953 · 1 in 5,174
- Michigan#1,115 · 1 in 7,012
Best ever in a state: #522 in Missouri, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Indiana | #735 | 8 | 1 in 3,787 |
| Louisiana | #755 | 6 | 1 in 3,498 |
| Oklahoma | #784 | 5 | 1 in 3,358 |
| Tennessee | #953 | 6 | 1 in 5,174 |
| Michigan | #1,115 | 6 | 1 in 7,012 |
| Ohio | #1,282 | 6 | 1 in 8,678 |
| Illinois | #1,307 | 7 | 1 in 8,232 |
| North Carolina | #1,376 | 5 | 1 in 9,062 |
| Georgia | #1,499 | 5 | 1 in 9,610 |
| Florida | #1,813 | 6 | 1 in 14,451 |
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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 Braylynn
- 1,261 spots since 2024 (#4,039 → #2,778)
- 582 spots since 2020 (#2,196 → #2,778)
- 884 spots since 2015 (#1,894 → #2,778)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2014 at #1,757 (118 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,756 girls born in 2017 were named Braylynn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,349 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,757 in 2014, was only 1 in 15,139 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 59.7% of all girls named Braylynn (974) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #13,724 (1997) | #13,724 |
| 2000s | 222 | #2,852 (2009) | #6,742 |
| 2010s | 974 | #1,757 (2014) | #2,059 |
| 2020s | 431 | #1,871 (2021) | #2,633 |
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.
Braylynn in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 15,682 of them was named Braylynn, which outranked 90.3% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,815Loren114
- #1,815Sheila114
- #1,815Valencia114
- #1,828Braylynn113
- #1,828Amyah113
- #1,828Angely113
- #1,828Avia113
- #1,841Aubreigh112
- #1,841Chava112
- #1,841Emberlyn112
Tied with 12 names at #1,828; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 158,145 of them was named Braylynn, which outranked 52.7% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,349Zvi13
- #6,349Zyden13
- #6,349Zyheir13
- #6,726Braylynn12
- #6,726Aarib12
- #6,726Aashir12
- #6,726Aashrith12
- #7,157Aadarsh11
- #7,157Aadith11
- #7,157Aalijah11
Tied with 430 names at #6,726; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.