Brinkley
#5,268 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brinkley has been given to 1,346 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #5,268 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 90 recorded.
Babies named Brinkley, 2025
1 in 138,000
Brinkley 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Brinkley?
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
- #5,268
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 95,747 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brinkley 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 Brinkley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brinkleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brinkley was born before 2012 — so the typical Brinkley is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 48.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,308
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 48.1% of all recorded uses (629).
Is Brinkley 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
- −229
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,036
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,789
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.33×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 26.7%
- Peak was 2012 (90)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.6% average annual change
Spellings of Brinkley
Brinkley is not the most common spelling — Brinley is, with 43.5% against Brinkley's 4.2%.
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 Brinkley is used
Across 1910–2025, Brinkley was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 215,889 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (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. Brinkley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Brinkley around the world
Where Brinkley 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 Australia1993–1993#712in 1993
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Brinkley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Brinkley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brinkley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.