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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 5,141 of them was named Braelyn, which outranked 95.1% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #865Avayah321
- #867Jazmine320
- #867Teresa320
- #869Braelyn319
- #869Harlee319
- #869Iliana319
- #869Kara319
- #874Emmalyn318
- #874Kamari318
- #874Yamileth318
Tied with 4 names at #869; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 25,677 of them was named Braelyn, which outranked 85.0% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,136Nicolai69
- #2,136Wynn69
- #2,136Yusef69
- #2,150Braelyn68
- #2,150Arley68
- #2,150Atharva68
- #2,150Bryar68
- #2,168Abbas67
- #2,168Addison67
- #2,168Breck67
Tied with 17 names at #2,150; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.