Braelynn
#837 for girls in 2025, 325 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 97.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 806 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,829since 1989
Braelynn over time
Rank among girls' names. Braelynn 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 | #837 | 325 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #810 | 347 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #666 | 443 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #573 | 522 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #470 | 663 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #445 | 694 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #457 | 681 | #5,813 | 15 |
| 2018 | #396 | 778 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #389 | 806 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #411 | 809 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #466 | 686 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #564 | 543 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #628 | 446 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #602 | 475 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #708 | 393 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #892 | 297 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #1,032 | 252 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #1,313 | 189 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #1,655 | 134 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,267 | 84 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,524 | 68 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,391 | 44 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 | — | |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,661 | 18 | — | |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | — | |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | — | |
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| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
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| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Braelynn! It came in at #12,362, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1991, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Braelynn is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Montana#195 · 1 in 577
- West Virginia#204 · 1 in 733
- Iowa#273 · 1 in 1,073
- Nebraska#298 · 1 in 1,126
- Mississippi#356 · 1 in 1,374
Best ever in a state: #64 in Wyoming, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | #195 | 5 | 1 in 577 |
| West Virginia | #204 | 9 | 1 in 733 |
| Iowa | #273 | 12 | 1 in 1,073 |
| Nebraska | #298 | 7 | 1 in 1,126 |
| Mississippi | #356 | 8 | 1 in 1,374 |
| Louisiana | #359 | 13 | 1 in 1,514 |
| Indiana | #428 | 15 | 1 in 2,021 |
| Missouri | #439 | 13 | 1 in 2,104 |
| Wisconsin | #488 | 10 | 1 in 2,347 |
| Ohio | #522 | 18 | 1 in 2,876 |
| Oklahoma | #561 | 7 | 1 in 2,416 |
| Kansas | #611 | 5 | 1 in 2,674 |
| Maryland | #612 | 8 | 1 in 3,042 |
| Virginia | #667 | 10 | 1 in 3,565 |
| Kentucky | #685 | 5 | 1 in 3,671 |
| Georgia | #825 | 11 | 1 in 4,361 |
| Pennsylvania | #906 | 9 | 1 in 5,879 |
| Washington | #930 | 6 | 1 in 5,054 |
| Arizona | #959 | 6 | 1 in 5,263 |
| Tennessee | #1,004 | 5 | 1 in 5,867 |
| Texas | #1,046 | 25 | 1 in 6,385 |
| Michigan | #1,077 | 6 | 1 in 6,933 |
| Florida | #1,139 | 11 | 1 in 7,235 |
| Illinois | #1,177 | 8 | 1 in 7,602 |
| California | #1,629 | 16 | 1 in 13,188 |
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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 Braelynn
- 27 spots since 2024 (#810 → #837)
- 392 spots since 2020 (#445 → #837)
- 371 spots since 2015 (#466 → #837)
- Biggest jump: 184 spots in 2011 (#892 → #708)
- Biggest drop: 144 spots in 2024 (#666 → #810)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2017 at #389 (806 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,142 girls born in 2017 were named Braelynn (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,945 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 60.2% of all girls named Braelynn (5,914) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #12,362 (1989) | #12,362 |
| 1990s | 48 | #5,661 (1999) | #9,528 |
| 2000s | 868 | #1,032 (2009) | #3,191 |
| 2010s | 5,914 | #389 (2017) | #551 |
| 2020s | 2,994 | #445 (2020) | #634 |
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.
Braelynn 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 5,985 of them was named Braelynn, which outranked 95.5% 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 239,835 of them was named Braelynn, which outranked 38.3% 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).
- #8,139Zyiere9
- #8,139Zymari9
- #8,139Zyshawn9
- #8,803Braelynn8
- #8,803Aamari8
- #8,803Aarron8
- #8,803Aasim8
- #9,693Aadam7
- #9,693Aaran7
- #9,693Aashrith7
Tied with 889 names at #8,803; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.