Meaning not yet researched.
Brailey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,360 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,360 in 2012; #8,449 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brailey in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,449 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #2,360.
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Brailey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,360 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 79 (2012).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Brailey, making it the 8,449th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,769 places from #6,680 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 17 girls named Brailey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,360, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 79. For comparison, it was #3,219 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brailey in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 10 babies. In all, 1,181 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 578 babies named Brailey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 321 US girls were named Brailey; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Braylee (6,924 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Braily and Braely 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: Braily (48), Braely (44).
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 Brailey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,449 | — | — |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,680 | — | — |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,150 | — | — |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,339 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,114 | — | — |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,564 | — | — |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,509 | — | — |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,061 | — | — |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,491 | — | — |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,336 | — | — |
| 2015 | 51 | #3,219 | — | — |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,047 | — | — |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,601 | — | — |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,844 | — | — |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,468 | — | — |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,024 | — | — |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,296 | — | — |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,747 | — | — |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,406 | — | — |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,561 | — | — |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,604 | — | — |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,393 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,254 | 5 | #10,558 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,939 | — | — |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,164 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,126 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,656 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,977 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,203 | — | — |
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).