Braelyn
#1,080 for girls in 2025, 224 births · #3,089 for boys in 2025, 39 births
Given to girls 89.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 735 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,972since 1991
Braelyn 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 | #1,080 | 224 | #3,089 | 39 |
| 2024 | #1,070 | 232 | #3,045 | 40 |
| 2023 | #912 | 291 | #2,510 | 53 |
| 2022 | #869 | 319 | #2,150 | 68 |
| 2021 | #750 | 380 | #2,225 | 63 |
| 2020 | #687 | 414 | #2,069 | 68 |
| 2019 | #639 | 458 | #2,464 | 54 |
| 2018 | #644 | 460 | #2,385 | 55 |
| 2017 | #469 | 664 | #2,154 | 63 |
| 2016 | #484 | 645 | #2,184 | 62 |
| 2015 | #470 | 680 | #1,853 | 79 |
| 2014 | #452 | 711 | #1,920 | 75 |
| 2013 | #496 | 604 | #1,989 | 69 |
| 2012 | #448 | 699 | #1,687 | 90 |
| 2011 | #426 | 735 | #1,666 | 90 |
| 2010 | #458 | 673 | #1,525 | 106 |
| 2009 | #486 | 634 | #1,789 | 84 |
| 2008 | #567 | 543 | #2,583 | 48 |
| 2007 | #813 | 353 | #2,643 | 46 |
| 2006 | #858 | 311 | #3,306 | 32 |
| 2005 | #1,191 | 192 | #3,941 | 23 |
| 2004 | #1,294 | 165 | #4,264 | 20 |
| 2003 | #1,970 | 92 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,046 | 84 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #1,700 | 106 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,236 | 70 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #2,438 | 59 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,116 | 40 | — | |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,016 | 19 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Braelyn! It came in at #6,588, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1994, when fewer than 20 girls a year got the name.
Where Braelyn is popular in 2003
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Indiana#726 · 1 in 4,629
- Michigan#1,237 · 1 in 9,818
- Texas#1,881 · 1 in 17,564
Best ever in a state: #120 in South Dakota, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Indiana | #726 | 7 | 1 in 4,629 |
| Michigan | #1,237 | 5 | 1 in 9,818 |
| Texas | #1,881 | 9 | 1 in 17,564 |
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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 Braelyn
- 10 spots since 2024 (#1,070 → #1,080)
- 393 spots since 2020 (#687 → #1,080)
- 610 spots since 2015 (#470 → #1,080)
- Biggest jump: 333 spots in 2006 (#1,191 → #858)
- Biggest drop: 175 spots in 2018 (#469 → #644)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2011 at #426 (735 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 2006–2023
- Highest: 1 in 2,393 girls born in 2011 were named Braelyn (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,175 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 57.7% of all girls named Braelyn (6,329) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1990s | 233 | #2,438 (1999) | #4,632 |
| 2000s | 2,550 | #486 (2009) | #1,316 |
| 2010s | 6,329 | #426 (2011) | #499 |
| 2020s | 1,860 | #687 (2020) | #895 |
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.
Braelyn in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 19,860 of them was named Braelyn, which outranked 89.3% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,947Nayzeth93
- #1,947Sloane93
- #1,947Suzanna93
- #1,970Braelyn92
- #1,970Anahy92
- #1,970Audrianna92
- #1,970Aysha92
- #1,985Adamari91
- #1,985Ashia91
- #1,985Brookelynn91
Tied with 14 names at #1,970; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.