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Brylen

Brylen reached its high-water mark in 2012 at number 2,551, and has been recorded 709 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,707th. About 700 Brylens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Brylen boys named Brylen

By the numbers

Total US births
709
Estimated living today
700
Median age today
11
Peak year
2012
Best rank
2,551st
Rank in 2025
4,707th
First recorded
1998
Girls / boys
50 / 659

How old the living Brylens 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 709 babies given the name since 1998, about 700 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 630 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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 Brylen is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Brylen is most concentrated in Texas (7.8×).

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

Names of 2012

The most popular boys’ names the year Brylen peaked:

All the names of 2012

Related names

Brylen 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.