Braylin
#2,095 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Braylin has been given to 4,785 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #2,095 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 220 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 66% boys, 34% girls all-time.
Babies named Braylin, 2025
1 in 47,400
Braylin over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Braylin over time
In 2025, Braylin went to 26% girls and 74% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Braylin?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 47,400
- 70 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 24,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,095
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 32,828 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Braylin sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 32,828 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Braylin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Braylins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Braylin was born before 2013 — so the typical Braylin is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 55.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,147
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 55.0% of all recorded uses (1,730).
Is Braylin 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
- −110
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −560
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,063
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.36×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 31.8%
- Peak was 2011 (220)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.4% average annual change
Spellings of Braylin
Braylin is not the most common spelling — Brayden is, with 52.5% against Braylin's 1.2%.
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 Braylin is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Braylin was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 3,704 boys, against 1 in 14,922 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 3,704
- 2South Carolina1 in 4,348
- 3Alabama1 in 4,762
- 4Georgia1 in 5,263
- 5Michigan1 in 5,556
- 6North Carolina1 in 7,692
- 7Tennessee1 in 7,692
- 8Ohio1 in 9,091
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.
Where Braylin is used — girls
Across 2016–2025, Braylin was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 56,919 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).
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.
Braylin around the world
Where Braylin 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 & Wales2015–2020#4,608in 2020
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Braylin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Braylin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Braylin
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Braylin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Braylin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.