Meaning not yet researched.
Brailyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,474 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,474 in 2014; #5,952 in 2025. About 63% of babies named Brailyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,952 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #2,474.
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Brailyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,474 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 73 (2014).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Brailyn, making it the 5,952nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,547 places from #4,405 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 32 girls named Brailyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,474, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 73. For comparison, it was #3,142 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Brailyn, making it the 6,862nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 628 places from #6,234 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 14 boys named Brailyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,308, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 33. For comparison, it was #4,739 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brailyn in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 5 babies. In all, 1,481 US babies have been given the name, 73% of them girls and 27% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 788 babies named Brailyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 339 US girls were named Brailyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Braylon (18,959 babies since 1880), Braylen (14,058 babies since 1880), Braelyn (12,314 babies since 1880) and Braelynn (10,039 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Brailyn 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 | 20 | #5,952 | 12 | #6,862 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,405 | 14 | #6,234 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,584 | 16 | #5,696 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,929 | 12 | #6,885 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,983 | 10 | #7,678 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,846 | 17 | #5,272 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,087 | 10 | #7,725 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,246 | 19 | #4,945 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,019 | 18 | #5,132 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,110 | 25 | #4,112 |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,142 | 20 | #4,739 |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,474 | 25 | #4,029 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,602 | 26 | #3,875 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,742 | 33 | #3,308 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,874 | 24 | #4,123 |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,565 | 24 | #4,116 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,051 | 25 | #4,049 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,725 | 22 | #4,416 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,543 | 13 | #6,310 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,106 | 18 | #4,884 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,047 | 11 | #6,703 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,785 | — | — |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,651 | 6 | #9,728 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,749 | — | — |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,857 | — | — |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,341 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,312 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,372 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,286 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,234 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,696 | — | — |
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).