Meaning not yet researched.
Braelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 224 in 2025. Its best rank was #426 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #426 in 2011; #1,080 in 2025. About 85% of babies named Braelyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,080 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #426.
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Braelyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 224 girls in 2025. Peak: #426 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 735 (2011).
In 2025, 224 US girls were named Braelyn, making it the 1,080th most common girls’ name of the year, down 10 places from #1,070 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 232 girls named Braelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #426, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 735. For comparison, it was #472 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 39 US boys were named Braelyn, making it the 3,094th most common boys’ name of the year, down 41 places from #3,053 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 40 boys named Braelyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,525, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 106. For comparison, it was #1,854 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Braelyn in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 13 babies. In all, 12,314 US babies have been given the name, 89% of them girls and 11% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,072 babies named Braelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,087 US girls were named Braelyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 664. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,175 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Braelyn ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #610 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Braylon (18,959 babies since 1880), Braylen (14,058 babies since 1880), Braelynn (10,039 babies since 1880) and Braylin (4,785 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bralynn, Braelynne and Braelyne are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bralynn (686), Braelynne (191), Braelyne (6), Braelinn (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Braelyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 17 | #610 | #322 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #635 | #306 |
| Michigan | 12 | #646 | #260 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #691 | #416 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #766 | #245 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #795 | #392 |
| Alabama | 5 | #837 | #828 |
| Maryland | 5 | #862 | #338 |
| Florida | 18 | #871 | #439 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #907 | #442 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #941 | #378 |
| Missouri | 5 | #956 | #299 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,062 | #361 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,139 | #486 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,159 | #443 |
| New York | 12 | #1,175 | #686 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,235 | #416 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,365 | #836 |
| California | 10 | #1,976 | #1,119 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 224 | #1,080 | 39 | #3,094 |
| 2024 | 232 | #1,070 | 40 | #3,053 |
| 2023 | 291 | #914 | 53 | #2,513 |
| 2022 | 319 | #869 | 68 | #2,152 |
| 2021 | 380 | #750 | 63 | #2,228 |
| 2020 | 414 | #687 | 68 | #2,071 |
| 2019 | 458 | #639 | 54 | #2,465 |
| 2018 | 460 | #644 | 55 | #2,394 |
| 2017 | 664 | #469 | 63 | #2,156 |
| 2016 | 645 | #484 | 62 | #2,185 |
| 2015 | 680 | #472 | 79 | #1,854 |
| 2014 | 711 | #452 | 75 | #1,922 |
| 2013 | 604 | #496 | 69 | #1,992 |
| 2012 | 699 | #448 | 90 | #1,688 |
| 2011 | 735 | #426 | 90 | #1,667 |
| 2010 | 673 | #458 | 106 | #1,525 |
| 2009 | 634 | #486 | 84 | #1,790 |
| 2008 | 543 | #567 | 48 | #2,591 |
| 2007 | 353 | #813 | 46 | #2,645 |
| 2006 | 311 | #859 | 32 | #3,312 |
| 2005 | 192 | #1,191 | 23 | #3,953 |
| 2004 | 165 | #1,297 | 20 | #4,280 |
| 2003 | 92 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,050 | 8 | #7,728 |
| 2001 | 106 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,241 | 7 | #8,304 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,124 | — | — |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,525 | — | — |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,607 | — | — |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,231 | — | — |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,041 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #5,990 | — | — |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,293 | — | — |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,637 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).