Brailey

#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · Last seen for boys in 2000 at #10,349
Given to girls 99.6% of the time

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Peak · girls
2012 · 79 births
Debut · girls
10 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,176
since 1994

Brailey over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Brailey has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202012peak #2,356, 2012girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#8,36212
2024#6,64217
2023#5,12625
2022#5,30924
2021#5,09125
2020#4,54829
2019#3,49944
2018#3,05053
2017#3,47944
2016#3,32648
2015#3,21151
2014#3,04155
2013#2,59768
2012#2,35679
2011#2,43475
2010#2,84161
2009#2,46577
2008#3,01757
2007#3,28951
2006#3,66942
2005#3,73039
2004#4,38731
2003#4,53628
2002#3,59537
2001#5,36421
2000#6,20817#10,3495
1999#5,89617
1998#7,10413
1997#9,0179
1996#7,57411
1995#11,7836
1994#8,12210
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First appearance
1994

The first year at least five girls were named Brailey! It came in at #8,122, and was given to 10 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1995, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.

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Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,720 spots since 2024 (#6,642#8,362)
  • 3,814 spots since 2020 (#4,548#8,362)
  • 5,151 spots since 2015 (#3,211#8,362)
Rise & fade · girls
18 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1994
  • Peaked 2012 at #2,356 (79 births)
  • Births halved by 2020, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 22,292
  • Highest: 1 in 22,292 girls born in 2012 were named Brailey (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 49.1% of all girls named Brailey (578) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s66#5,896 (1999)#8,249
2000s400#2,465 (2009)#4,026
2010s578#2,356 (2012)#2,983
2020s132#4,548 (2020)#5,846

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.

Brailey in 2012

girls
#2,356
79 births · 1 in 22,292 girls

Top girls' names in 2012

  1. #1Sophia22,336
  2. #2Emma20,976
  3. #3Isabella19,138
  4. #4Olivia17,333
  5. #5Ava15,549
  6. #6Emily13,666
  7. #7Abigail12,730
  8. #8Mia12,039
  9. #9Madison11,417
  10. #10Elizabeth9,730
  11. #2,356Brailey79
More about 2012

girls

1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 22,292 of them was named Brailey, which outranked 87.9% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Brailey
  1. #2,336Makynzie80
  2. #2,336Pilar80
  3. #2,336Sol80
  4. #2,356Brailey79
  5. #2,356Aaliya79
  6. #2,356Analy79
  7. #2,356Arihanna79
  8. #2,373Acacia78
  9. #2,373Aiza78
  10. #2,373Alayla78

Tied with 16 names at #2,356; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2011
Risers
  1. 4,327Cataleya#4,807#480
  2. 1,931Adley#2,664#733
  3. 917Litzy#1,515#598
  4. 784Kenia#1,427#643
  5. 580Monroe#1,531#951
Fallers
  1. 429Jaden#979#1,408
  2. 365Payten#994#1,359
  3. 326Yamilet#925#1,251
  4. 316Shaniya#915#1,231
  5. 264Shania#898#1,162

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2012