Meaning not yet researched.
Braylyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,164 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,164 in 2009; #5,954 in 2025. About 56% of babies named Braylyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,954 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #3,164.
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Braylyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,164 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 53 (2009).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Braylyn, making it the 5,954th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,355 places from #7,309 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 15 girls named Braylyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,164, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 53. For comparison, it was #4,507 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Braylyn, making it the 5,646th most common boys’ name of the year, up 51 places from #5,697 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 16 boys named Braylyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,859, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 41. For comparison, it was #3,796 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Braylyn in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 6 babies. In all, 1,314 US babies have been given the name, 57% of them girls and 43% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 683 babies named Braylyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 280 US girls were named Braylyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 40. 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.
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.
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 Braylyn 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 | #5,954 | 16 | #5,646 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,309 | 16 | #5,697 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,788 | 15 | #5,970 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,818 | 23 | #4,455 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,638 | 19 | #4,956 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,373 | 32 | #3,427 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,674 | 23 | #4,350 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,087 | 24 | #4,244 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,858 | 27 | #3,902 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,794 | 26 | #4,005 |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,507 | 28 | #3,796 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,334 | 33 | #3,309 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,721 | 31 | #3,416 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,596 | 35 | #3,187 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,927 | 41 | #2,859 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,209 | 35 | #3,186 |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,164 | 38 | #3,054 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,193 | 32 | #3,428 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,396 | 17 | #5,236 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,480 | 15 | #5,554 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,872 | 11 | #6,704 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,783 | 5 | #11,584 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,563 | 8 | #7,938 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,399 | 5 | #10,881 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,777 | 5 | #10,774 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,397 | 5 | #10,564 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,488 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,670 | — | — |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #9,438 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,728 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,980 | — | — |
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).