Meaning not yet researched.
Brylan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,661 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,661 in 2012; #5,649 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brylan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,649 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,661.
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Brylan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,661 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 93 (2012).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Brylan, making it the 5,649th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,182 places from #3,467 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 33 boys named Brylan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,661, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 93. For comparison, it was #2,135 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brylan in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 7 babies. In all, 1,320 US babies have been given the name, 5.8% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 695 babies named Brylan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 373 US boys were named Brylan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Brylen, Brelyn and Brylon are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brylen (709), Brelyn (667), Brylon (605), Brylin (563), Brylynn (532), Brilyn (433), Breylon (320), Breylin (268), Breylen (186), Breylan (174), Brylyn (148), Brelan (78), and more.
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 Brylan 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 | — | — | 16 | #5,649 |
| 2024 | — | — | 33 | #3,467 |
| 2023 | — | — | 26 | #4,130 |
| 2022 | — | — | 29 | #3,785 |
| 2021 | — | — | 39 | #3,079 |
| 2020 | — | — | 35 | #3,212 |
| 2019 | — | — | 45 | #2,771 |
| 2018 | — | — | 44 | #2,757 |
| 2017 | — | — | 46 | #2,684 |
| 2016 | — | — | 60 | #2,236 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,932 | 65 | #2,135 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,040 | 69 | #2,045 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,016 | 70 | #1,970 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,212 | 93 | #1,661 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,346 | 90 | #1,668 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,508 | 72 | #1,940 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,789 | 51 | #2,488 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,588 | 62 | #2,164 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,807 | 43 | #2,768 |
| 2006 | — | — | 32 | #3,314 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,944 | 36 | #2,907 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,542 | 37 | #2,793 |
| 2003 | — | — | 28 | #3,296 |
| 2002 | — | — | 24 | #3,569 |
| 2001 | — | — | 25 | #3,429 |
| 2000 | — | — | 19 | #4,079 |
| 1999 | — | — | 9 | #6,607 |
| 1998 | — | — | 13 | #4,914 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,324 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,184 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #5,984 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,058 |
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).