Brelyn
#11,109 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brelyn has been given to 667 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #11,109 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 31 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.
Babies named Brelyn, 2025
1 in 414,000
Brelyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Brelyn over time
In 2025, Brelyn went to 53% girls and 47% 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 Brelyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,109
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brelyn 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brelyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brelyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brelyn was born before 2009 — so the typical Brelyn is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 35.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 598
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (211).
Is Brelyn 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
- −3,802
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,432
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,343
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.44×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 25.8%
- Peak was 2012 (31)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.0% average annual change
Spellings of Brelyn
Brelyn is not the most common spelling — Evelyn is, with 79.4% against Brelyn's 0.07%.
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 Brelyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Brelyn was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,680,621 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
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. Brelyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Brelyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Brelyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brelyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.