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Brayley

Gender
Girl
Say it
BRAY-lee
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#8,360 for girls

Brayley is a girls' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).

Where does Brayley come from?

English: English surname, or a blend of Bray and Bailey

Is Brayley a girl's or a boy's name?

Brayley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Brayley in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,360among girls
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 130,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Brayley, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.

Half of all the girls named Brayley in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 305 girls in the US were given Brayley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #833, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.

2002Busiest: 20 in 20152025
Brayley in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#8,360
202411#8,941
202311#8,984
20229#10,377
202112#8,459
202016#6,919
201912#8,592
201811#9,146
201720#6,040
201618#6,660
201520#6,234
201416#7,300
201313#8,575
201216#7,452
201113#8,610
201014#8,267
200912#9,375
200811#10,080
20079#11,626
20069#11,412
20057#13,003
20040–
20037#12,401
20028#11,102

Names like Brayley

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Brayley

Names related to Brayley

More English names

Every English name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Brayley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/brayley, updated 20 October 2026.