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Brylee

#992 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Briley

Brylee has been given to 11,663 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #992 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 771 recorded.

Babies named Brylee, 2025

1 in 13,000

Brylee over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brylee: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Briley

surname transfer

What Brylee means

Brylee is a variant of Briley.

Origin, language, and formation

Brylee is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Brylee is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Briley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,164 girls were recorded with the name Brylee between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 771 in 2011; its best national rank was #408 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #782 in 2020 to #992 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #477 in 2015 to #992 in 2025.

In the United States, 499 boys were recorded with the name Brylee between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 2012; its best national rank was #2,907 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,320 in 2020 to #9,044 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,740 in 2015 to #9,044 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Brylee?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,000
255 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,300
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#992
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,013 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brylee 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,013 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brylee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brylees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brylee was born before 2013 — so the typical Brylee is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,164
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 55.9% of all recorded uses (6,244).

Is Brylee 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
+25
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−210
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−515
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.1%
Peak was 2011 (771)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#408
2012

Spellings of Brylee

Brylee is not the most common spelling — Kaylee is, with 27.8% against Brylee's 2.2%.

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 Brylee is used

Across 2016–2025, Brylee was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 1,099 girls, against 1 in 3,994 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

191 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 1,099
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 1,190
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 1,266
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 1,370
  5. 5Montana1 in 1,408
  6. 6Alabama1 in 1,515
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 1,538
  8. 8West Virginia1 in 1,563

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.

Geographically, Brylee is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 80% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Brylee around the world

Where Brylee 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.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2000–2023
    #2,049
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1983–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Brylee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#992
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 210
Best rank ever
#408
2012
Peak year
2011
771 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,164
Count in 2025
255

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,044
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,276
Best rank ever
#2,907
2012
Peak year
2012
40 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
499
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Brylee

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

BrynleeBrynnleeBryanaBrynnaBryannaCayleeKaileeCarleeBrynneKarleeJayleeHarleeBaileeHaileeBrylieMarleeBrynnKynleeBryceBrynBayleeBrynleyOakleeZaylee

Names with a curve like Brylee

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

BraelynLilyanaAddisynJaylahJaelynnJayleenLailahPaitynJazlynnJaliyahLilliannaAnnabella

Sibling names for Brylee

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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