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Brynlee vs Bryonna

American parents have registered 22,250 Brynlees since 1880, against 892 Bryonnas. Brynlee is still ahead, with 1,282 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Brynlee Bryonna

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 38 years in which either name was published, Brynlee for 24 years and Bryonna for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Brynlee Bryonna
Total US births 22,250892
Most in one year 1,58359
Babies in 2025 1,282under 5
Estimated living today 22,000880
Median age today 723
Peak year 20192000
Best rank 186th girls2,545th girls
Rank in 2025 243rdunranked
First recorded 19951987
Girls / boys 22,229 / 21892 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Bryonnas 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.

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