Meaning not yet researched.
Braelynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 325 in 2025. Its best rank was #389 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #389 in 2017; #837 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Braelynn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#837 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #389.
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Braelynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 325 girls in 2025. Peak: #389 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 809 (2016).
In 2025, 325 US girls were named Braelynn, making it the 837th most common girls’ name of the year, down 27 places from #810 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 347 girls named Braelynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #389, reached in 2017. The most girls given the name in a single year was 809, in 2016. For comparison, it was #466 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Braelynn in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 10,039 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,029 babies named Braelynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,068 US girls were named Braelynn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 809. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,945 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Braelynn ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #215 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Braelyn (12,314 babies since 1880), Braylynn (1,816 babies since 1880), Brailyn (1,481 babies since 1880) and Braylyn (1,314 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Braylynne and Bralynne are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Braylynne (24), Bralynne (10).
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 Braelynn 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 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 5 | #215 | — |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #276 | #221 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #394 | #338 |
| Kansas | 6 | #506 | #636 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #508 | #338 |
| Iowa | 6 | #512 | #366 |
| Maryland | 10 | #514 | #339 |
| Michigan | 15 | #522 | #226 |
| Missouri | 11 | #523 | #331 |
| Nevada | 5 | #532 | #374 |
| Alabama | 9 | #533 | #363 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #561 | #522 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #578 | #511 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #623 | #468 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #673 | #343 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #719 | #360 |
| Ohio | 12 | #753 | #575 |
| Virginia | 9 | #775 | #461 |
| Georgia | 12 | #808 | #512 |
| Illinois | 11 | #814 | #609 |
| Indiana | 7 | #834 | #257 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #958 | #800 |
| Florida | 16 | #967 | #540 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,000 | #421 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,068 | #314 |
| New York | 12 | #1,176 | #593 |
| Texas | 21 | #1,231 | #682 |
| California | 7 | #2,541 | #986 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 325 | #837 | 8 | #9,041 |
| 2024 | 347 | #810 | 10 | #7,851 |
| 2023 | 443 | #666 | 16 | #5,695 |
| 2022 | 522 | #574 | 14 | #6,194 |
| 2021 | 663 | #470 | 13 | #6,374 |
| 2020 | 694 | #445 | 16 | #5,488 |
| 2019 | 681 | #458 | 15 | #5,852 |
| 2018 | 778 | #396 | 9 | #8,253 |
| 2017 | 806 | #389 | 7 | #9,833 |
| 2016 | 809 | #411 | 14 | #6,086 |
| 2015 | 686 | #466 | 7 | #9,702 |
| 2014 | 543 | #564 | 18 | #5,090 |
| 2013 | 446 | #629 | 14 | #5,961 |
| 2012 | 475 | #602 | 11 | #7,124 |
| 2011 | 393 | #708 | 12 | #6,638 |
| 2010 | 297 | #892 | 8 | #8,911 |
| 2009 | 252 | #1,032 | 13 | #6,476 |
| 2008 | 189 | #1,314 | 5 | #12,778 |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 2006 | 84 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,400 | — | — |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,693 | — | — |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,108 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,607 | — | — |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,422 | — | — |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,693 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,258 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,431 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,976 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,932 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,614 | — | — |
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).