Meaning not yet researched.
Brinlee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 112 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,299 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,299 in 2017; #1,798 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brinlee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,798 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,299.
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Brinlee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 112 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,299 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 181 (2017).
In 2025, 112 US girls were named Brinlee, making it the 1,798th most common girls’ name of the year, down 63 places from #1,735 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 117 girls named Brinlee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,299, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 181. For comparison, it was #1,338 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brinlee in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 7 babies. In all, 2,850 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,485 babies named Brinlee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,455 US girls were named Brinlee; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 181. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,351 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brinlee ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #721 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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 Brynnlee (1,962 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Brinlee 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 5 | #721 | #332 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #769 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #958 | #755 |
| Michigan | 7 | #979 | #1,314 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,131 | #1,263 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,157 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,309 | #797 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,934 | #994 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 2024 | 117 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 2022 | 172 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 2021 | 134 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 2020 | 159 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 2019 | 142 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 2018 | 152 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 2017 | 181 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 2016 | 178 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 2015 | 177 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 2014 | 168 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 2012 | 119 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 2011 | 151 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 2009 | 88 | #2,230 | — | — |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,487 | — | — |
| 2007 | 71 | #2,602 | — | — |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,610 | — | — |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,973 | — | — |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,697 | — | — |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,884 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #3,995 | — | — |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,710 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,520 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,797 | — | — |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,087 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,309 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,774 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,725 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,630 | — | — |
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).