Brelynn
#4,371 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brelynn has been given to 1,060 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #4,371 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 76 recorded.
Babies named Brelynn, 2025
1 in 104,000
Brelynn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Brelynn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 104,000
- 32 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 50,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,371
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 71,810 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brelynn 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brelynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brelynns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brelynn was born before 2014 — so the typical Brelynn is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,055
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (527).
Is Brelynn 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
- +414
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,219
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,275
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.59×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 42.1%
- Peak was 2016 (76)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.0% average annual change
Spellings of Brelynn
Brelynn is not the most common spelling — Raelynn is, with 20.6% against Brelynn's 0.63%.
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 Brelynn is used
Across 2016–2025, Brelynn was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 60,801 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 16,667
- 2Mississippi1 in 16,667
- 3Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 4North Carolina1 in 33,333
- 5South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 6Tennessee1 in 50,000
- 7Florida1 in 100,000
- 8Georgia1 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.
Brelynn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Brelynn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brelynn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.