first name
BRAELYNN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 5,748 people named Braelynn, 72.4% reported their origin as White, 10.4% as Black and 7.9% as two or more races. 98.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Braelynn peaked in 2016, when 823 babies got the name.
At least 10,039 babies have been given the name since 1989. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Braelynn by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,004. The largest share of babies named Braelynn, 78.7%, were born in 2013 or later.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Braelynn is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Braelynn has been most common in Arizona (1.9×), West Virginia (1.8×), and Indiana (1.7×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.18×).
8,772 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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