girls:
50 births since 2007
#5666 (1st percentile)
boys:
607 births since 1998
#3979 (13th percentile)
overall:
657 births since 1998
#7082 (8th percentile)
The name Brylen is the #7,082 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 657 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 8.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,979 (13.2% percentile) for all time with 607 births since 1998. For girls, it ranks #5,666 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 50 births since 2007.
Brylen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (1998 for boys and 2007 for girls). Birth data for Brylen is available in 24 out of the 26 years between 1998 and 2023 (24 years for boys and 8 years for girls). 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 Brylen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brylen reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #857) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 24 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brylen ranks #895 for boys (1.8% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 48.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brylen reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #937) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brylen".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Brylen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Brylen is pronounced as BRAI-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BRAI-lehn, at 13.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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