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Braylynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 61 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,757 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,757 in 2014; #2,783 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Braylynn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,783 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #1,757.
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Braylynn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 61 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,757 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 118 (2014).
In 2025, 61 US girls were named Braylynn, making it the 2,783rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,267 places from #4,050 in 2024. That is 25 more than the 36 girls named Braylynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,757, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 118. For comparison, it was #1,897 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Braylynn, making it the 10,872nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,463 places from #8,409 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 9 boys named Braylynn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #5,326, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 17. For comparison, it was #5,326 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Braylynn in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 5 babies. In all, 1,816 US babies have been given the name, 90% of them girls and 10% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,095 babies named Braylynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 851 US girls were named Braylynn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 117. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,349 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Braylynn ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,303 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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).
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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 Braylynn 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,303 | #1,115 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,377 | #3,356 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,783 | 6 | #10,872 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,050 | 9 | #8,409 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,472 | 6 | #11,025 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,449 | 7 | #9,982 |
| 2021 | 106 | #1,875 | 9 | #8,274 |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,198 | 15 | #5,744 |
| 2019 | 96 | #2,001 | 8 | #9,017 |
| 2018 | 94 | #2,063 | 7 | #9,821 |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,782 | 14 | #6,097 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,831 | 12 | #6,788 |
| 2015 | 107 | #1,897 | 17 | #5,326 |
| 2014 | 118 | #1,757 | 16 | #5,511 |
| 2013 | 98 | #1,990 | 7 | #9,786 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,163 | 13 | #6,359 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,196 | 13 | #6,301 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,944 | 14 | #6,080 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,857 | 6 | #11,183 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,194 | 5 | #12,783 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,583 | — | — |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,975 | — | — |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,048 | — | — |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,537 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,564 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,298 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,238 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,028 | — | — |
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).