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Braelynn

#837 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Braelyn

Braelynn has been given to 10,039 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #837 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 809 recorded.

Babies named Braelynn, 2025

1 in 10,200

Braelynn over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Braelynn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Braelyn

coinages

What Braelynn means

Braelynn is a variant of Braelyn.

Origin, language, and formation

Braelynn is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Braelynn is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Braelyn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,829 girls were recorded with the name Braelynn between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 809 in 2016; its best national rank was #389 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #445 in 2020 to #837 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #466 in 2015 to #837 in 2025.

In the United States, 210 boys were recorded with the name Braelynn between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2014; its best national rank was #5,086 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,484 in 2020 to #9,037 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,696 in 2015 to #9,037 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Braelynn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,200
325 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,950
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#837
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,072 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Braelynn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,072 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Braelynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Braelynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Braelynn was born before 2017 — so the typical Braelynn is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
60.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,829
People you could plausibly meet
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2010s — 60.2% of all recorded uses (5,914).

Is Braelynn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−27
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−392
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−371
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.2%
Peak was 2016 (809)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#389
2017

Spellings of Braelynn

Braelynn is not the most common spelling — Raelynn is, with 27.3% against Braelynn's 7.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Braelynn is used

Across 2016–2025, Braelynn was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 625 girls, against 1 in 2,363 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 10,000).

10160 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 625
  2. 2Iowa1 in 1,064
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 1,111
  4. 4Missouri1 in 1,176
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 1,250
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 1,316
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 1,333
  8. 8Nebraska1 in 1,370

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Braelynn is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 48% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Braelynn around the world

Where Braelynn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2019–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #991
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Braelynn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#837
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 392
Best rank ever
#389
2017
Peak year
2016
809 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,829
Count in 2025
325

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,037
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,553
Best rank ever
#5,086
2014
Peak year
2014
18 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
210
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Braelynn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Braelynn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Braelynn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Braelynn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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