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Bralynn

About 686 American babies have been named Bralynn since 1998, most of them around 2016. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 680 Bralynns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Bralynn boys named Bralynn

Girls and boys called Bralynn

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: 565 girls and 121 boys in all, and in 2018 the split was 24 to 7.

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
686
Estimated living today
680
Median age today
12
Peak year
2016
Best rank
3,588th
Rank in 2025
8,860th
First recorded
1998
Girls / boys
565 / 121

How old the living Bralynns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 686 babies given the name since 1998, about 680 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 580 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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 Bralynn is most common

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

Names of 2016

The most popular girls’ names the year Bralynn peaked:

All the names of 2016

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Bralynn 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.