Meaning not yet researched.
Brailynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,327 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,327 in 2014; #6,894 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brailynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,894 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #2,327.
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Brailynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,327 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 79 (2014).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Brailynn, making it the 6,894th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,068 places from #5,826 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 21 girls named Brailynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,327, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 79. For comparison, it was #2,852 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brailynn in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 6 babies. In all, 952 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 639 babies named Brailynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 407 US girls were named Brailynn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Braelyn (12,314 babies since 1880), Braelynn (10,039 babies since 1880), Braylynn (1,816 babies since 1880) and Brailyn (1,481 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 Brailynn 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 | 16 | #6,894 | — | — |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,826 | — | — |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,062 | — | — |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,637 | — | — |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,847 | — | — |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,401 | — | — |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,930 | 8 | #8,958 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,648 | 7 | #9,811 |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,852 | — | — |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 2013 | 75 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,379 | 5 | #12,528 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,056 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,526 | — | — |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,287 | 7 | #10,004 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,665 | — | — |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,862 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,820 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,901 | — | — |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,603 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,368 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,764 | — | — |
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).