girls:
1.3k births since 1985
#4465 (22nd percentile)
boys:
38 births since 1939
#4548 (1st percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1939
#6447 (17th percentile)
The name Brinkley is the #6,447 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,295 recorded births since 1939. This represents the 16.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,465 (21.9% percentile) for all time with 1,257 births since 1985. For boys, it ranks #4,548 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 1939.
Brinkley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1939 (1939 for boys and 1985 for girls). Birth data for Brinkley is available in 39 out of the 85 years between 1939 and 2023 (36 years for girls and 7 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Brinkley has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.1% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1985, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1939 to 1984), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (98.3% girls from 1985 to 2023).
For girls, Brinkley reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 9.1% percentile (ranked #846) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 47 births per million (ranked 9.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Brinkley ranks #922 for girls (2.6% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 36.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Brinkley reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #641) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brinkley".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Brinkley. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.8% confident that Brinkley is pronounced as BRIHNGK-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BRIHNG-klee, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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