Brinlee

#1,798 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Brinlee has been given to 2,850 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #1,798 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 181 recorded.

Babies named Brinlee, 2025

1 in 29,600

Brinlee over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Brinlee?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,600
112 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,798
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,518 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brinlee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,518 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brinlee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brinlees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brinlee was born before 2016 — so the typical Brinlee is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,850
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Choose a decade

2010s — 52.1% of all recorded uses (1,485).

Is Brinlee 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
−63
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−429
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−460
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.9%
Peak was 2017 (181)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,299
2017

Spellings of Brinlee

Brinlee is not the most common spelling — Brielle is, with 31.0% against Brinlee's 1.8%.

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.

Where Brinlee is used

Across 2016–2025, Brinlee was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 2,222 girls, against 1 in 12,246 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

145 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 2,222
  2. 2Idaho1 in 3,571
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 3,846
  4. 4Utah1 in 4,545
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 5,263
  6. 6Alabama1 in 6,250
  7. 7Indiana1 in 6,667
  8. 8Iowa1 in 7,143

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.

Brinlee around the world

Where Brinlee 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.

  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Brinlee by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,798
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 429
Best rank ever
#1,299
2017
Peak year
2017
181 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,850
Count in 2025
112

Names similar to Brinlee

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Names with a curve like Brinlee

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Brinlee, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Sibling names for Brinlee

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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