Brendalyn
#15,329 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brendalyn has been given to 301 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #15,329 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1948, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Brendalyn, 2025
1 in 663,000
Brendalyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Brendalyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #15,329
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brendalyn 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brendalyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brendalyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brendalyn was born before 1975 — so the typical Brendalyn is around 50 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 20.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 29.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 282
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 20.9% of all recorded uses (63).
Is Brendalyn 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,059
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.50×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 35.7%
- Peak was 1948 (14)
- Years since peak
- 77
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 8.1% average annual change
Spellings of Brendalyn
Brendalyn is not the most common spelling — Gwendalyn is, with 31.4% against Brendalyn's 7.8%.
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.
Brendalyn around the world
Where Brendalyn 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.
- South Australia1952–1952#460in 1952
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Brendalyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Brendalyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brendalyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.