Meaning not yet researched.
Bralyn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,480 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,480 in 2011; #7,752 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bralyn in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,752 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #2,480.
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Bralyn: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,480 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 50 (2011).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Bralyn, making it the 7,752nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,301 places from #10,053 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 7 boys named Bralyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,480, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 50. For comparison, it was #3,793 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Bralyn in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #5,265, reached in 2010. The most girls given the name in a single year was 27, in 2008. For comparison, it was #9,585 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bralyn in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 9 babies. In all, 862 US babies have been given the name, 38% of them girls and 62% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 394 babies named Bralyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 117 US boys were named Bralyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys 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 Bralyn 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 | — | — | 10 | #7,752 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #10,053 |
| 2023 | — | — | 6 | #11,019 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,809 | 10 | #7,839 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,431 | 14 | #6,072 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,365 | 16 | #5,489 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,617 | 12 | #6,832 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,711 | 13 | #6,394 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,837 | 12 | #6,740 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,702 | 17 | #5,351 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,585 | 28 | #3,793 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,559 | 37 | #3,043 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,818 | 22 | #4,340 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,823 | 32 | #3,380 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,860 | 50 | #2,480 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,265 | 35 | #3,185 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,738 | 40 | #2,954 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,311 | 35 | #3,231 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,863 | 24 | #4,137 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,908 | 26 | #3,800 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,249 | 14 | #5,604 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,829 | 20 | #4,281 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,560 | 8 | #7,935 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,940 | 8 | #7,730 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,801 | 11 | #6,067 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,020 | 10 | #6,374 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #10,084 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,805 | 9 | #6,043 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,866 | — | — |
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).