Brinkley
#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births · Last seen for boys in 2013 at #12,136
Given to girls 97.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 90 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,308since 1985
Brinkley over time
Rank among girls' names. Brinkley has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #5,238 | 24 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,454 | 31 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,964 | 26 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,072 | 35 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,677 | 41 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,627 | 42 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,379 | 47 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,471 | 73 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,442 | 74 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,108 | 90 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #2,115 | 90 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #2,534 | 71 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,691 | 66 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,966 | 58 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,478 | 47 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,329 | 50 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,073 | 36 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #3,942 | 36 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,172 | 33 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,978 | 32 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,738 | 34 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 | — | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | — | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | — | |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | — | |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | — | |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | — | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | — | |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | — | |
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| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | — | |
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| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brinkley! It came in at #8,318, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Brinkley
- 217 spots since 2024 (#5,021 → #5,238)
- 2,017 spots since 2020 (#3,221 → #5,238)
- 2,767 spots since 2015 (#2,471 → #5,238)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2013 at #2,108 (90 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,497 girls born in 2013 were named Brinkley (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 66,969 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 48.1% of all girls named Brinkley (629) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 13 | #8,318 (1985) | #9,072 |
| 1990s | 108 | #4,583 (1996) | #8,590 |
| 2000s | 380 | #2,966 (2009) | #3,878 |
| 2010s | 629 | #2,108 (2013) | #2,912 |
| 2020s | 178 | #3,221 (2020) | #4,727 |
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.
Brinkley in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 245,833 of them was named Brinkley, which outranked 33.5% 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).
- #7,563Yumiko8
- #7,563Zeina8
- #7,563Zuleika8
- #8,318Brinkley7
- #8,318Aaren7
- #8,318Abrianna7
- #8,318Adah7
- #9,307Abi6
- #9,307Adaline6
- #9,307Adana6
Tied with 988 names at #8,318; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.