Brylan
Last seen for girls in 2015 at #16,419 · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to boys 94.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 93 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,243since 1994
Brylan 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 | — | #5,608 | 16 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,455 | 33 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,112 | 26 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,774 | 29 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,074 | 39 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,202 | 35 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,766 | 45 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,748 | 44 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,672 | 46 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,228 | 60 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #2,132 | 65 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #2,044 | 69 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #1,964 | 70 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #1,657 | 93 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #1,666 | 90 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #1,940 | 72 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #2,486 | 51 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #2,161 | 62 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #2,765 | 43 |
| 2006 | — | #3,306 | 32 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #2,902 | 36 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #2,788 | 37 |
| 2003 | — | #3,280 | 28 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,554 | 24 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,410 | 25 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,066 | 19 | |
| 1999 | — | #6,530 | 9 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,873 | 13 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,288 | 11 | |
| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brylan! It came in at #6,968, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1996, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Brylan is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Tennessee#757 · 1 in 5,859
- Georgia#1,224 · 1 in 11,178
- Texas#1,445 · 1 in 17,862
Best ever in a state: #451 in Mississippi, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Tennessee | #757 | 6 | 1 in 5,859 |
| Georgia | #1,224 | 5 | 1 in 11,178 |
| Texas | #1,445 | 10 | 1 in 17,862 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Brylan
- 2,153 spots since 2024 (#3,455 → #5,608)
- 2,406 spots since 2020 (#3,202 → #5,608)
- 3,476 spots since 2015 (#2,132 → #5,608)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2012 at #1,657 (93 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,397 boys born in 2012 were named Brylan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 106,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 52.6% of all boys named Brylan (654) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 54 | #4,873 (1998) | #6,434 |
| 2000s | 357 | #2,161 (2008) | #3,072 |
| 2010s | 654 | #1,657 (2012) | #2,182 |
| 2020s | 178 | #3,074 (2021) | #3,871 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brylan in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 355,519 of them was named Brylan, which outranked 14.4% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 26,648 of them was named Brylan, which outranked 86.4% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,924Tiernan73
- #1,924Travion73
- #1,924Wylie73
- #1,940Brylan72
- #1,940Donavon72
- #1,940Jade72
- #1,940Jaelyn72
- #1,957Amin71
- #1,957Augustin71
- #1,957Creighton71
Tied with 16 names at #1,940; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.