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Braelin

Braelin is a boy's name that peaked in 2009, when it was the 3,721st most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 8,910th. About 630 Braelins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Girls and boys called Braelin

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 254 girls and 384 boys in all, and in 2022 the split was 6 to 19.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 11 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
638
Estimated living today
630
Median age today
14
Peak year
2009
Best rank
3,721st
Rank in 2025
8,910th
First recorded
1995
Girls / boys
254 / 384

How old the living Braelins are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 638 babies given the name since 1995, about 630 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Braelin is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2009

The most popular boys’ names the year Braelin peaked:

All the names of 2009

Related names

Braelin against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.