Brinley
#608 for girls in 2025, 481 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #7,289
Given to girls 98.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 1,000 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,490since 1987
Brinley over time
Rank among girls' names. Brinley 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 | #608 | 481 | — | |
| 2024 | #564 | 535 | — | |
| 2023 | #492 | 622 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #449 | 699 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #394 | 799 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #362 | 857 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #386 | 812 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #338 | 955 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #328 | 1,000 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #339 | 983 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #408 | 785 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #459 | 696 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #505 | 596 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #500 | 613 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #530 | 547 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #659 | 444 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #781 | 362 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,113 | 232 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #1,129 | 229 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #1,121 | 222 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,164 | 198 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,344 | 158 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #1,446 | 136 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #1,418 | 135 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,861 | 94 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #2,103 | 77 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,424 | 60 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,015 | 42 | — | |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #4,883 | 20 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,677 | 16 | — | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | — | |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | — | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | — | |
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| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | — | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brinley! It came in at #11,325, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1989, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Brinley is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#72 · 1 in 328
- Idaho#121 · 1 in 451
- North Dakota#166 · 1 in 526
- South Dakota#209 · 1 in 606
- Nebraska#288 · 1 in 1,026
Best ever in a state: #69 in South Dakota, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #72 | 58 | 1 in 328 |
| Idaho | #121 | 15 | 1 in 451 |
| North Dakota | #166 | 5 | 1 in 526 |
| South Dakota | #209 | 5 | 1 in 606 |
| Nebraska | #288 | 8 | 1 in 1,026 |
| Iowa | #365 | 9 | 1 in 1,469 |
| Kansas | #404 | 8 | 1 in 1,720 |
| Wisconsin | #454 | 11 | 1 in 2,228 |
| Oklahoma | #462 | 9 | 1 in 1,913 |
| Nevada | #468 | 6 | 1 in 1,910 |
| Oregon | #519 | 7 | 1 in 2,234 |
| Kentucky | #538 | 7 | 1 in 2,755 |
| Tennessee | #548 | 11 | 1 in 2,774 |
| Alabama | #611 | 7 | 1 in 2,859 |
| Colorado | #617 | 8 | 1 in 2,980 |
| Texas | #623 | 49 | 1 in 3,401 |
| Missouri | #667 | 8 | 1 in 3,501 |
| North Carolina | #682 | 13 | 1 in 3,571 |
| Indiana | #687 | 9 | 1 in 3,522 |
| Ohio | #726 | 13 | 1 in 4,188 |
| Arizona | #836 | 8 | 1 in 4,190 |
| Louisiana | #836 | 5 | 1 in 4,131 |
| Virginia | #894 | 7 | 1 in 5,242 |
| Washington | #947 | 6 | 1 in 5,227 |
| Michigan | #974 | 7 | 1 in 6,106 |
| Illinois | #1,332 | 7 | 1 in 9,034 |
| Georgia | #1,360 | 6 | 1 in 8,454 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,419 | 5 | 1 in 10,926 |
| Florida | #2,019 | 5 | 1 in 16,467 |
| California | #2,627 | 8 | 1 in 27,286 |
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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 Brinley
- 44 spots since 2024 (#564 → #608)
- 246 spots since 2020 (#362 → #608)
- 200 spots since 2015 (#408 → #608)
- Biggest jump: 332 spots in 2009 (#1,113 → #781)
- Biggest drop: 72 spots in 2024 (#492 → #564)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2017 at #328 (1,000 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2009–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,726 girls born in 2017 were named Brinley (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,342 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 55.1% of all girls named Brinley (7,431) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 13 | #8,391 (1988) | #9,858 |
| 1990s | 210 | #2,424 (1999) | #6,201 |
| 2000s | 1,843 | #781 (2009) | #1,348 |
| 2010s | 7,431 | #328 (2017) | #445 |
| 2020s | 3,993 | #362 (2020) | #478 |
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.
Brinley in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 5,075 of them was named Brinley, which outranked 96.1% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).