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Brynlee vs Brynnlee

American parents have registered 22,250 Brynlees since 1880, against 1,962 Brynnlees. Brynlee is still ahead, with 1,282 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Brynlee Brynnlee

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

Brynlee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1995 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Brynlee had 1,214 and Brynnlee had 133.

Side by side

  Brynlee Brynnlee
Total US births 22,2501,962
Most in one year 1,583163
Babies in 2025 1,282121
Estimated living today 22,0002,000
Median age today 77
Peak year 20192021
Best rank 186th girls1,354th girls
Rank in 2025 243rd1,692nd
First recorded 19952001
Girls / boys 22,229 / 211,962 / 0

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

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