Briant
Last seen for boys in 2024 at #8,312
- Peak · boys
- 1966 · 17 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 967since 1947
Briant over time
Rank among boys' names. Briant has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | #4,640 | 20 |
| 2006 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #4,631 | 18 |
| 2004 | #3,456 | 27 |
| 2003 | #3,280 | 28 |
| 2002 | #2,632 | 36 |
| 2001 | #3,974 | 20 |
| 2000 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #3,986 | 18 |
| 1998 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #3,160 | 23 |
| 1996 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #3,751 | 17 |
| 1993 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #2,834 | 24 |
| 1991 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #2,432 | 28 |
| 1989 | #3,094 | 19 |
| 1988 | #2,255 | 27 |
| 1987 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #3,692 | 11 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #2,473 | 18 |
| 1977 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 12 |
| 1975 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1974 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #2,716 | 13 |
| 1972 | #2,418 | 15 |
| 1971 | #2,686 | 13 |
| 1970 | #2,058 | 19 |
| 1969 | #2,308 | 14 |
| 1968 | #2,311 | 13 |
| 1967 | #2,242 | 13 |
| 1966 | #1,891 | 17 |
| 1965 | #2,084 | 15 |
| 1964 | #2,854 | 9 |
| 1963 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1962 | #2,035 | 16 |
| 1961 | #1,997 | 17 |
| 1960 | #2,423 | 12 |
| 1959 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #2,265 | 13 |
| 1957 | #1,952 | 17 |
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| 1955 | #2,764 | 9 |
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| 1950 | #3,329 | 6 |
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| 1947 | #3,370 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Briant! It came in at #3,370, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1949, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Briant is popular in 1961
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,055 · 1 in 37,799
Best ever in a state: #753 in Arizona, 2003.
Show every state
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| California | #1,055 | 5 | 1 in 37,799 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Briant
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1966 at #1,891 (17 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 53,931 boys born in 2002 were named Briant (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 191,432 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,891 in 1966, was only 1 in 104,909 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.6% of all boys named Briant (228) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 6 | #3,370 (1947) | #3,370 |
| 1950s | 54 | #1,952 (1957) | #2,626 |
| 1960s | 140 | #1,891 (1966) | #2,235 |
| 1970s | 133 | #2,058 (1970) | #2,933 |
| 1980s | 127 | #2,255 (1988) | #3,796 |
| 1990s | 196 | #2,432 (1990) | #3,483 |
| 2000s | 228 | #2,632 (2002) | #4,108 |
| 2010s | 69 | #6,036 (2010) | #8,983 |
| 2020s | 14 | #8,312 (2024) | #10,229 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Briant in 1961
Top boys' names in 1961
More about 1961
boys
2,124,195 boys got a published name in 1961; 1 in 124,953 of them was named Briant, which outranked 57.1% of the 4,657 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,948Thompson18
- #1,948Tonnie18
- #1,948Winton18
- #1,997Briant17
- #1,997Anastacio17
- #1,997Autry17
- #1,997Berlin17
- #2,070Alphonza16
- #2,070Aram16
- #2,070Armondo16
Tied with 72 names at #1,997; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.