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Brynleigh

#807 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Brinley

Brynleigh has been given to 4,107 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #807 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 385 recorded.

Babies named Brynleigh, 2025

1 in 9,810

Brynleigh over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brynleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Brinley

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brynleigh means

Brynleigh is a variant of Brinley.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Brinley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,107 girls were recorded with the name Brynleigh between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 385 in 2022; its best national rank was #752 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #888 in 2020 to #807 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,164 in 2015 to #807 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.

How common is Brynleigh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,810
338 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,750
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#807
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,800 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brynleigh 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,800 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brynleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brynleighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brynleigh was born before 2019 — so the typical Brynleigh is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
49.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,107
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 49.9% of all recorded uses (2,051).

Is Brynleigh 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
−9
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+81
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+357
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.8%
Peak was 2022 (385)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#752
2022

Spellings of Brynleigh

Brynleigh is not the most common spelling — Ryleigh is, with 59.2% against Brynleigh's 6.9%.

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 Brynleigh is used

Across 2016–2025, Brynleigh was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 1,333 girls, against 1 in 4,748 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

275 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 1,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 1,370
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 1,667
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 1,754
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 1,786
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 2,128
  7. 7Indiana1 in 2,174
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 2,222

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, Brynleigh is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 75% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Brynleigh around the world

Where Brynleigh 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
    2023–2023
    #3,599
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Brynleigh by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#807
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 81
Best rank ever
#752
2022
Peak year
2022
385 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,107
Count in 2025
338

Names similar to Brynleigh

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

BryleighBrynnleighPaisleighBrynnleeAnnaleighBrynleyEmmaleighBrayleighKinsleighPresleighOakleighCharleighHadleighBrynnleyKarleighBayleighNataleighHarleighNovaleighHayleighRayleighWrenleighKaileighMarleigh

Names with a curve like Brynleigh

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

SeraphinaMarloweAdaleeZaylaEmilianaZendayaAilaDenverAspynLayanRowynPersephone

Sibling names for Brynleigh

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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