Brynn
#407 for girls in 2025, 767 births · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to girls 98.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 1,656 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 29,816since 1943
Brynn over time
Rank among girls' names. Brynn has never cracked the top 100 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 | #407 | 767 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #383 | 820 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #414 | 741 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #388 | 806 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #361 | 847 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #333 | 930 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #307 | 1,056 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #308 | 1,087 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #297 | 1,095 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #256 | 1,238 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #259 | 1,229 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #262 | 1,257 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #214 | 1,487 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #189 | 1,656 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #192 | 1,665 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #287 | 1,140 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #344 | 949 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #325 | 1,039 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #351 | 925 | #7,094 | 11 |
| 2006 | #401 | 800 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #420 | 736 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #359 | 879 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #291 | 1,067 | #4,616 | 17 |
| 2002 | #585 | 443 | — | |
| 2001 | #653 | 386 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #616 | 412 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #558 | 452 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #721 | 306 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #1,120 | 167 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #1,056 | 175 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #1,023 | 178 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #1,100 | 163 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #1,113 | 161 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #1,216 | 143 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #1,201 | 144 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #1,017 | 178 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #978 | 177 | #4,017 | 13 |
| 1988 | #1,187 | 127 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #1,202 | 120 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #944 | 168 | #3,882 | 11 |
| 1985 | #933 | 168 | — | |
| 1984 | #766 | 210 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #729 | 226 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #611 | 294 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #991 | 147 | #3,412 | 12 |
| 1980 | #925 | 161 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #1,442 | 84 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,098 | 25 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,606 | 32 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #3,540 | 19 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #3,950 | 16 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,008 | 23 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,342 | 19 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,276 | 19 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,938 | 23 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,917 | 21 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,558 | 13 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,336 | 15 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #3,318 | 15 | — | |
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| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 | — | |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
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| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,694 | 15 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,535 | 16 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,340 | 18 | — | |
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| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brynn! It came in at #4,196, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1944–1948, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Brynn is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#329 · 1 in 2,464
- Washington#345 · 1 in 2,126
- Minnesota#410 · 1 in 3,568
- Michigan#526 · 1 in 4,772
- Wisconsin#575 · 1 in 6,129
Best ever in a state: #40 in Minnesota, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #329 | 7 | 1 in 2,464 |
| Washington | #345 | 13 | 1 in 2,126 |
| Minnesota | #410 | 8 | 1 in 3,568 |
| Michigan | #526 | 12 | 1 in 4,772 |
| Wisconsin | #575 | 5 | 1 in 6,129 |
| Pennsylvania | #614 | 11 | 1 in 6,286 |
| Illinois | #891 | 8 | 1 in 9,124 |
| New York | #906 | 12 | 1 in 8,908 |
| California | #1,091 | 18 | 1 in 11,236 |
| Texas | #1,874 | 5 | 1 in 26,670 |
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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 Brynn
- 24 spots since 2024 (#383 → #407)
- 74 spots since 2020 (#333 → #407)
- 148 spots since 2015 (#259 → #407)
- Biggest jump: 517 spots in 1980 (#1,442 → #925)
- Biggest drop: 258 spots in 1987 (#944 → #1,202)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 2012 at #189 (1,656 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1998–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,056 girls born in 2011 were named Brynn (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,096 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- Its best rank, #189 in 2012, was only 1 in 1,063 (0.09%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.3% of all girls named Brynn (12,910) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 24 | #2,340 (1949) | #3,268 |
| 1950s | 83 | #2,535 (1950) | #4,213 |
| 1960s | 118 | #2,917 (1969) | #3,785 |
| 1970s | 269 | #1,442 (1979) | #3,274 |
| 1980s | 1,798 | #611 (1982) | #927 |
| 1990s | 2,067 | #558 (1999) | #1,013 |
| 2000s | 7,636 | #291 (2003) | #435 |
| 2010s | 12,910 | #189 (2012) | #257 |
| 2020s | 4,911 | #333 (2020) | #381 |
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.
Brynn in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 10,243 of them was named Brynn, which outranked 92.5% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #929Malissa170
- #931Kerrie169
- #931Kiley169
- #933Brynn168
- #933Juliet168
- #933Katelin168
- #933Lia168
- #939Cassondra167
- #939Jeana167
- #939Katheryn167
Tied with 5 names at #933; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.