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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 19,567 of them was named Brinkley, which outranked 89.2% 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).
- #2,095Serina91
- #2,095Taylynn91
- #2,095Zaida91
- #2,115Brinkley90
- #2,115Ania90
- #2,115Arionna90
- #2,115Dawn90
- #2,132Addalynn89
- #2,132Aleeya89
- #2,132Amilia89
Tied with 16 names at #2,115; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 316,158 of them was named Brinkley, which outranked 24.4% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,709Zinn7
- #9,709Zlatan7
- #9,709Zylon7
- #10,770Brinkley6
- #10,770Aadhavan6
- #10,770Aadith6
- #10,770Aadiv6
- #12,274Aadrit5
- #12,274Aakarsh5
- #12,274Aalok5
Tied with 1,503 names at #10,770; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.