Brinkley
Brinkley is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 201290 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1985
- 1,321people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,283 girls have been named Brinkley in the United States since 1985, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 90 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 49%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 38 boys have also been given it, 2.9% of the total.
By decade
In 2012, its biggest year
Brinkley was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2012 were Sophia, Emma, Isabella, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Brinkley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aleeyahpeak 2012
- Giuliannapeak 2010
- Kailynnpeak 2011
- Leyahpeak 2011
- Jazzlynnpeak 2012
- Peightonpeak 2010
- Kyleipeak 2012
- Peytonpeak 2009
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.