Meaning not yet researched.
Brayleigh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 62 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,220 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,220 in 2017; #2,756 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brayleigh in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,756 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,220.
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Brayleigh: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 62 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,220 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 197 (2017).
In 2025, 62 US girls were named Brayleigh, making it the 2,756th most common girls’ name of the year, down 426 places from #2,330 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 79 girls named Brayleigh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,220, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 197. For comparison, it was #1,354 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brayleigh in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 5 babies. In all, 2,445 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,528 babies named Brayleigh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,401 US girls were named Brayleigh; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 197. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,924 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brayleigh ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,076 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Braleigh, Braeleigh and Braileigh 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Braleigh (543), Braeleigh (499), Braileigh (103).
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 Brayleigh 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,076 | #681 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,493 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,568 | #905 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,987 | #1,636 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,756 | — | — |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,330 | — | — |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 2022 | 132 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 2021 | 158 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 2020 | 140 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 2019 | 171 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 2018 | 178 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 2017 | 197 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 2016 | 168 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 2015 | 175 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 2014 | 185 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 2013 | 134 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 2012 | 138 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 2011 | 89 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 2010 | 93 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,856 | — | — |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,876 | — | — |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,582 | — | — |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,949 | — | — |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,988 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,458 | — | — |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,266 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,942 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,470 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,407 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,732 | — | — |
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).