Meaning not yet researched.
Brinley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 481 in 2025. Its best rank was #328 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #328 in 2017; #608 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brinley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#608 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #328.
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Brinley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 481 girls in 2025. Peak: #328 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 1,000 (2017).
In 2025, 481 US girls were named Brinley, making it the 608th most common girls’ name of the year, down 44 places from #564 in 2024. That is 54 fewer than the 535 girls named Brinley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #328, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,000. For comparison, it was #408 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brinley in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 5 babies. In all, 13,641 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,514 babies named Brinley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,743 US girls were named Brinley; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 1,000. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,342 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brinley ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #216 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), Brynley (3,425 babies since 1880), Brinlee (2,850 babies since 1880) and Brenley (1,058 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brinnley, Brinly and Brennley are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Brinnley (395), Brinly (222), Brennley (108), Brenly (91), Brinnly (10), Brinli (6).
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 Brinley 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 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 5 | #216 | #183 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #249 | #205 |
| Idaho | 9 | #252 | #163 |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #277 | #199 |
| Iowa | 12 | #279 | #141 |
| Kentucky | 15 | #287 | #178 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #320 | #195 |
| Utah | 13 | #341 | #154 |
| Michigan | 26 | #342 | #291 |
| Missouri | 17 | #355 | #284 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #379 | #225 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #385 | #244 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #398 | #498 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #404 | #236 |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #434 | #286 |
| Oregon | 8 | #440 | #324 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #538 | #582 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #541 | #376 |
| Indiana | 12 | #552 | #247 |
| Ohio | 18 | #567 | #360 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #568 | #393 |
| Alabama | 8 | #586 | #424 |
| Georgia | 18 | #588 | #424 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #654 | #318 |
| Maryland | 7 | #671 | #580 |
| Illinois | 14 | #675 | #365 |
| Arizona | 9 | #692 | #329 |
| Washington | 9 | #692 | #560 |
| Colorado | 7 | #723 | #415 |
| Florida | 21 | #775 | #650 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #778 | #858 |
| Virginia | 8 | #860 | #863 |
| Texas | 33 | #880 | #581 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #960 | #732 |
| New York | 11 | #1,246 | #760 |
| California | 13 | #1,664 | #1,061 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 481 | #608 | — | — |
| 2024 | 535 | #564 | — | — |
| 2023 | 622 | #492 | 11 | #7,359 |
| 2022 | 699 | #449 | 5 | #12,643 |
| 2021 | 799 | #394 | 5 | #12,430 |
| 2020 | 857 | #362 | 8 | #8,863 |
| 2019 | 812 | #386 | 7 | #9,903 |
| 2018 | 955 | #338 | 5 | #12,451 |
| 2017 | 1,000 | #328 | 7 | #9,844 |
| 2016 | 983 | #339 | 7 | #9,821 |
| 2015 | 785 | #408 | 8 | #8,863 |
| 2014 | 696 | #459 | 8 | #8,891 |
| 2013 | 596 | #505 | 14 | #5,969 |
| 2012 | 613 | #500 | 10 | #7,627 |
| 2011 | 547 | #530 | 8 | #8,871 |
| 2010 | 444 | #659 | 9 | #8,241 |
| 2009 | 362 | #781 | — | — |
| 2008 | 232 | #1,115 | 10 | #7,775 |
| 2007 | 229 | #1,129 | 7 | #9,913 |
| 2006 | 222 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 2005 | 198 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 2004 | 158 | #1,346 | 5 | #11,607 |
| 2003 | 136 | #1,446 | 6 | #9,738 |
| 2002 | 135 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,863 | 5 | #10,782 |
| 2000 | 77 | #2,108 | — | — |
| 1999 | 60 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,395 | 6 | #8,260 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,897 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,712 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,697 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,568 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,155 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,050 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,576 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,494 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,513 | — | — |
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).