Brinley

#608 for girls in 2025, 481 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #7,289
Given to girls 98.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
2017 · 1,000 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
13,490
since 1987

Brinley over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Brinley has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202019peak #328, 2017girls
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#608481
2024#564535
2023#492622#7,28911
2022#449699#12,3305
2021#394799#12,1465
2020#362857#8,7398
2019#386812#9,7567
2018#338955#12,1565
2017#3281,000#9,6967
2016#339983#9,6647
2015#408785#8,7448
2014#459696#8,7818
2013#505596#5,92314
2012#500613#7,55910
2011#530547#8,7678
2010#659444#8,1399
2009#781362
2008#1,113232#7,69810
2007#1,129229#9,7887
2006#1,121222
2005#1,164198
2004#1,344158#11,3565
2003#1,446136#9,5816
2002#1,418135
2001#1,86194#10,5565
2000#2,10377
1999#2,42460
1998#3,01542
1997#4,37024#8,1106
1996#4,88320
1995#5,67716
1994#9,5868
1993#7,49811
1992#8,06510
1991#7,98710
1990#8,5019
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First appearance
1987

The first year at least five girls were named Brinley! It came in at #11,325, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1989, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Brinley
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 44 spots since 2024 (#564#608)
  • 246 spots since 2020 (#362#608)
  • 200 spots since 2015 (#408#608)
  • Biggest jump: 332 spots in 2009 (#1,113#781)
  • Biggest drop: 72 spots in 2024 (#492#564)
Rise & fade · girls
30 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1987
  • Peaked 2017 at #328 (1,000 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 17 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2009–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,726
  • Highest: 1 in 1,726 girls born in 2017 were named Brinley (0.06%)
  • Latest: 1 in 3,342 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 55.1% of all girls named Brinley (7,431) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s13#8,391 (1988)#9,858
1990s210#2,424 (1999)#6,201
2000s1,843#781 (2009)#1,348
2010s7,431#328 (2017)#445
2020s3,993#362 (2020)#478

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.

Brinley in 2019

girls
#386
812 births · 1 in 2,067 girls
boys
#9,756
7 births · 1 in 256,317 boys

Top girls' names in 2019

  1. #1Olivia18,577
  2. #2Emma17,226
  3. #3Ava14,549
  4. #4Sophia13,821
  5. #5Isabella13,407
  6. #6Charlotte13,239
  7. #7Amelia12,944
  8. #8Mia12,508
  9. #9Harper10,497
  10. #10Evelyn10,443
  11. #386Brinley812

Top boys' names in 2019

  1. #1Liam20,631
  2. #2Noah19,178
  3. #3Oliver13,967
  4. #4William13,658
  5. #5Elijah13,436
  6. #6James13,198
  7. #7Benjamin13,044
  8. #8Lucas12,483
  9. #9Mason11,484
  10. #10Alexander11,327
  11. #9,756Brinley7
More about 2019

girls

1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 2,067 of them was named Brinley, which outranked 97.9% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Brinley
  1. #383Kira818
  2. #384Lana814
  3. #385Ophelia813
  4. #386Brinley812
  5. #387Demi808
  6. #388Lennon800
  7. #389Reign792
Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 1,081Amoura#2,059#978
  2. 553Theodora#1,406#853
  3. 456Navy#1,269#813
  4. 415Emani#1,371#956
  5. 403Yaritza#1,216#813
Fallers
  1. 451Emmarie#990#1,441
  2. 368Saniyah#934#1,302
  3. 252Tatiana#692#944
  4. 229Zhavia#879#1,108
  5. 219Jayden#979#1,198

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

boys

1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 256,317 of them was named Brinley, which outranked 31.0% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Brinley
  1. #8,889Zylo8
  2. #8,889Zylus8
  3. #8,889Zyrie8
  4. #9,756Brinley7
  5. #9,756Aadhavan7
  6. #9,756Aagam7
  7. #9,756Aari7
  8. #10,803Aaban6
  9. #10,803Aadhan6
  10. #10,803Aamil6

Tied with 1,046 names at #9,756; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 5,830Sekani#6,703#873
  2. 5,230Ermias#5,770#540
  3. 654Amias#1,478#824
  4. 623Kyro#1,343#720
  5. 512Aziel#1,465#953
Fallers
  1. 376Jaxtyn#776#1,152
  2. 252Brysen#860#1,112
  3. 220Coen#814#1,034
  4. 219Chad#899#1,118
  5. 219Imran#933#1,152

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

See the top 100 for 2019