Meaning not yet researched.
Brynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 767 in 2025. Its best rank was #189 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #189 in 2012; #407 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Brynn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#407 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #189.
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Brynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 767 girls in 2025. Peak: #189 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 1,665 (2011).
In 2025, 767 US girls were named Brynn, making it the 407th most common girls’ name of the year, down 24 places from #383 in 2024. That is 53 fewer than the 820 girls named Brynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #189, reached in 2012. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,665, in 2011. For comparison, it was #259 in 2015 and #2,551 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brynn in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 6 babies. In all, 30,211 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 12,985 babies named Brynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,387 US girls were named Brynn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,238. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,096 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brynn ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #93 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Bryn (8,861 babies since 1880), Brynna (3,102 babies since 1880), Brynne (2,709 babies since 1880) and Brian (1,178,298 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brene are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brene (40).
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 Brynn 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 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 7 | #93 | — |
| North Dakota | 6 | #168 | #117 |
| Pennsylvania | 61 | #185 | #114 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #196 | #189 |
| Kansas | 16 | #203 | #224 |
| Connecticut | 16 | #209 | #195 |
| Minnesota | 26 | #212 | #107 |
| Maine | 5 | #222 | — |
| New Jersey | 36 | #230 | #255 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #241 | #69 |
| Wisconsin | 21 | #256 | #136 |
| Maryland | 19 | #275 | #148 |
| Iowa | 12 | #280 | #142 |
| Michigan | 30 | #295 | #227 |
| Colorado | 20 | #303 | #227 |
| Washington | 23 | #319 | #312 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #321 | #196 |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #340 | #181 |
| Virginia | 22 | #360 | #318 |
| Ohio | 30 | #373 | #142 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #380 | #482 |
| Kentucky | 11 | #388 | #513 |
| Utah | 11 | #389 | #263 |
| Illinois | 26 | #405 | #270 |
| North Carolina | 27 | #407 | #339 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #414 | #89 |
| Arizona | 15 | #450 | #286 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #491 | #243 |
| Georgia | 23 | #494 | #492 |
| Oregon | 7 | #495 | #296 |
| New York | 33 | #510 | #284 |
| Missouri | 11 | #524 | #230 |
| California | 61 | #538 | #425 |
| Florida | 30 | #584 | #492 |
| Indiana | 10 | #616 | #271 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #655 | #756 |
| Texas | 43 | #704 | #461 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #706 | #395 |
| Alabama | 6 | #733 | #451 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 767 | #407 | 7 | #9,865 |
| 2024 | 820 | #383 | 9 | #8,421 |
| 2023 | 741 | #414 | 5 | #12,532 |
| 2022 | 806 | #388 | 8 | #9,116 |
| 2021 | 847 | #361 | 5 | #12,439 |
| 2020 | 930 | #333 | 6 | #10,807 |
| 2019 | 1,056 | #307 | 9 | #8,313 |
| 2018 | 1,087 | #308 | 9 | #8,266 |
| 2017 | 1,095 | #297 | 6 | #10,983 |
| 2016 | 1,238 | #257 | 7 | #9,826 |
| 2015 | 1,229 | #259 | 5 | #12,358 |
| 2014 | 1,257 | #262 | 7 | #9,794 |
| 2013 | 1,487 | #214 | 7 | #9,802 |
| 2012 | 1,656 | #189 | 9 | #8,252 |
| 2011 | 1,665 | #192 | 6 | #11,022 |
| 2010 | 1,140 | #287 | 10 | #7,667 |
| 2009 | 949 | #344 | 6 | #11,205 |
| 2008 | 1,039 | #325 | 7 | #10,010 |
| 2007 | 925 | #351 | 11 | #7,165 |
| 2006 | 800 | #401 | 14 | #5,822 |
| 2005 | 736 | #420 | 10 | #7,191 |
| 2004 | 879 | #359 | 12 | #6,192 |
| 2003 | 1,067 | #291 | 17 | #4,637 |
| 2002 | 443 | #585 | — | — |
| 2001 | 386 | #653 | 12 | #5,719 |
| 2000 | 412 | #616 | 15 | #4,813 |
| 1999 | 452 | #558 | 9 | #6,610 |
| 1998 | 306 | #721 | 10 | #5,888 |
| 1997 | 167 | #1,120 | 6 | #8,267 |
| 1996 | 175 | #1,056 | 5 | #9,185 |
| 1995 | 178 | #1,023 | 9 | #5,985 |
| 1994 | 163 | #1,100 | 8 | #6,443 |
| 1993 | 161 | #1,116 | 7 | #6,909 |
| 1992 | 143 | #1,217 | 6 | #7,533 |
| 1991 | 144 | #1,202 | 5 | #8,360 |
| 1990 | 178 | #1,021 | 7 | #6,491 |
| 1989 | 177 | #979 | 13 | #4,045 |
| 1988 | 127 | #1,190 | 7 | #5,833 |
| 1987 | 120 | #1,203 | 7 | #5,547 |
| 1986 | 168 | #945 | 11 | #3,908 |
| 1985 | 168 | #933 | — | — |
| 1984 | 210 | #766 | 10 | #3,950 |
| 1983 | 226 | #729 | 9 | #4,174 |
| 1982 | 294 | #611 | 6 | #5,720 |
| 1981 | 147 | #992 | 12 | #3,442 |
| 1980 | 161 | #927 | 5 | #6,376 |
| 1979 | 84 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,107 | — | — |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,610 | 5 | #5,955 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,553 | 7 | #4,495 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,967 | — | — |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,016 | — | — |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,356 | — | — |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,291 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,593 | — | — |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,946 | — | — |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,923 | — | — |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,807 | 5 | #4,203 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,069 | — | — |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,577 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,562 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,048 | — | — |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,351 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,569 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,334 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,669 | — | — |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,226 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,440 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,921 | — | — |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,314 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,636 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,841 | — | — |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,706 | — | — |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,551 | — | — |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,250 | — | — |
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).