Meaning not yet researched.
Brinkley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,111 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,111 in 2013; #5,269 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brinkley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,269 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #2,111.
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Brinkley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,111 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 90 (2013).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Brinkley, making it the 5,269th most common girls’ name of the year, down 227 places from #5,042 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 26 girls named Brinkley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,111, reached in 2013. That year also had the most girls given the name: 90. For comparison, it was #2,479 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brinkley in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1939 with 5 babies. In all, 1,346 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 640 babies named Brinkley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 343 US girls were named Brinkley; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Brinklee are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brinklee (156).
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 Brinkley 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 | #5,269 | — | — |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,042 | — | — |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,478 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,492 | — | — |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,984 | — | — |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,232 | — | — |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,090 | — | — |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,688 | — | — |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,644 | — | — |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,385 | — | — |
| 2015 | 73 | #2,479 | — | — |
| 2014 | 74 | #2,445 | — | — |
| 2013 | 90 | #2,111 | 5 | #12,415 |
| 2012 | 90 | #2,117 | 6 | #10,982 |
| 2011 | 71 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,701 | — | — |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,971 | — | — |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,485 | — | — |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,340 | — | — |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,085 | 6 | #10,847 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,960 | — | — |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,186 | — | — |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,439 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #3,994 | 5 | #10,888 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,709 | — | — |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,744 | — | — |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,257 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,310 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,023 | — | — |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,612 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,167 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,917 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,765 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,154 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,441 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,365 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,995 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,444 | — | — |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,727 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #3,979 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,544 |
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).