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Bryanna vs Brynlee

American parents have registered 22,250 Brynlees since 1880, against 19,643 Bryannas. Brynlee is still ahead, with 1,282 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bryanna against Brynlee, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bryanna Brynlee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 57 years in which either name was published, Bryanna for 41 years and Brynlee for 16 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Bryanna Brynlee
Total US births 19,64322,250
Most in one year 1,0271,583
Babies in 2025 791,282
Estimated living today 19,00022,000
Median age today 237
Peak year 19982019
Best rank 292nd girls186th girls
Rank in 2025 2,298th243rd
First recorded 19591995
Girls / boys 19,643 / 022,229 / 21

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Bryannas alive today are over 23; half the Brynlees are over 7. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Bryanna Brynlee
England and Wales 1337

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bryanna and Brynlee.