Brenley
#5,264 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brenley has been given to 1,058 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #5,264 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 71 recorded.
Babies named Brenley, 2025
1 in 138,000
Brenley 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Brenley?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 138,000
- 24 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 67,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,264
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 95,747 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brenley 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brenley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brenleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brenley was born before 2014 — so the typical Brenley is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 52.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,031
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 52.3% of all recorded uses (539).
Is Brenley 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
- −1,974
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,479
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,079
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.46×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 33.8%
- Peak was 2017 (71)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.1% average annual change
Spellings of Brenley
Brenley is not the most common spelling — Presley is, with 24.1% against Brenley's 0.78%.
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 Brenley is used
Across 2016–2025, Brenley was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 60,404 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (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.
Brenley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Brenley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brenley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.