Briar

Where Briar comes from

As a surname Middle English brere (“briar”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Briar
  • English
Along the way
  1. 1972
    First appearance
    #8,292 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1993
    Briar Schwaller-Hürlimann born
    Swiss female curler
  3. 1998
    Briar Nolet born
    Canadian actress and dancer
  4. 2015
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2025
    Peak, #400
    778 babies named Briar — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from English.
Namesakes
  • Briar Nolet · Canadian actress and dancer, born 1998
  • Briar Schwaller-Hürlimann · Swiss female curler, born 1993
  • Briar Grace-Smith · Māori Scriptwriter, born 1966

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.