Meaning not yet researched.
Brenley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,519 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,519 in 2017; #5,265 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brenley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,265 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #2,519.
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Brenley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,519 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 71 (2017).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Brenley, making it the 5,265th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,975 places from #3,290 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 48 girls named Brenley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,519, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 71. For comparison, it was #3,185 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brenley in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 10 babies. In all, 1,058 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 561 babies named Brenley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 459 US girls were named Brenley; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brynlee (22,250 babies since 1880), Brinley (13,641 babies since 1880), Brynley (3,425 babies since 1880) and Brinlee (2,850 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brenli 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brenli (35).
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 Brenley 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 | 24 | #5,265 | — | — |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,717 | — | — |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,482 | — | — |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,628 | — | — |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,786 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,938 | — | — |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,653 | 5 | #12,443 |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,337 | — | — |
| 2015 | 52 | #3,185 | — | — |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,895 | 5 | #12,353 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,375 | 5 | #12,543 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,916 | 7 | #9,752 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,370 | — | — |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,165 | — | — |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,466 | 5 | #12,789 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,743 | — | — |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,841 | — | — |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,050 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,897 | — | — |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,968 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,895 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,860 | — | — |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,858 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,741 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,378 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,437 | — | — |
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).