Briar
#400 for girls in 2025, 778 births · #686 for boys in 2025, 397 births
Given to girls 52.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 778 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,002since 1972
Briar over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #400 | 778 | #686 | 397 |
| 2024 | #522 | 589 | #698 | 387 |
| 2023 | #549 | 550 | #671 | 405 |
| 2022 | #534 | 579 | #741 | 347 |
| 2021 | #516 | 597 | #714 | 364 |
| 2020 | #567 | 519 | #756 | 318 |
| 2019 | #578 | 529 | #775 | 302 |
| 2018 | #687 | 422 | #809 | 278 |
| 2017 | #722 | 397 | #882 | 244 |
| 2016 | #801 | 355 | #1,006 | 203 |
| 2015 | #835 | 336 | #1,006 | 203 |
| 2014 | #1,436 | 158 | #1,008 | 203 |
| 2013 | #1,866 | 108 | #1,128 | 161 |
| 2012 | #1,859 | 108 | #1,030 | 189 |
| 2011 | #1,909 | 104 | #1,082 | 172 |
| 2010 | #2,589 | 70 | #1,105 | 173 |
| 2009 | #2,568 | 72 | #1,272 | 138 |
| 2008 | #3,267 | 51 | #1,175 | 152 |
| 2007 | #2,541 | 73 | #1,263 | 139 |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 | #1,265 | 132 |
| 2005 | #4,487 | 30 | #1,302 | 117 |
| 2004 | #3,819 | 37 | #1,216 | 125 |
| 2003 | #3,347 | 43 | #1,141 | 132 |
| 2002 | #3,810 | 34 | #1,315 | 101 |
| 2001 | #3,486 | 38 | #1,242 | 107 |
| 2000 | #3,664 | 35 | #1,282 | 101 |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 | #1,593 | 68 |
| 1998 | #3,730 | 31 | #1,719 | 59 |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 | #1,480 | 72 |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 | #1,314 | 83 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | #1,107 | 105 |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 | #1,296 | 81 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 | #1,638 | 54 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 | #1,510 | 59 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #1,147 | 92 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #1,809 | 43 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | — | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | — | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | — | |
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 | — | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | — | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Briar! It came in at #8,292, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Briar
- 122 spots since 2024 (#522 → #400)
- 167 spots since 2020 (#567 → #400)
- 435 spots since 2015 (#835 → #400)
- Biggest jump: 601 spots in 2015 (#1,436 → #835)
- Biggest drop: 18 spots in 2022 (#516 → #534)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2025 at #400 (778 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2015–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,066 girls born in 2025 were named Briar (0.05%)
- 51.6% of all girls named Briar (3,612) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2014, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 50 | #6,611 (1976) | #7,954 |
| 1980s | 75 | #5,539 (1984) | #7,999 |
| 1990s | 212 | #3,730 (1998) | #5,216 |
| 2000s | 466 | #2,541 (2007) | #3,413 |
| 2010s | 2,587 | #578 (2019) | #1,328 |
| 2020s | 3,612 | #400 (2025) | #515 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Briar in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 81,171 of them was named Briar, which outranked 71.3% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,376Yocelyn23
- #4,376Zaneta23
- #4,376Zari23
- #4,521Briar22
- #4,521Abriel22
- #4,521Aisa22
- #4,521Aliana22
- #4,687Aaliya21
- #4,687Adia21
- #4,687Ahsley21
Tied with 165 names at #4,521; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 23,852 of them was named Briar, which outranked 87.3% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,288Milan82
- #1,288Santana82
- #1,288Shon82
- #1,296Briar81
- #1,296Carey81
- #1,296Horace81
- #1,296Jamon81
- #1,303Derrik80
- #1,303Geovanni80
- #1,303Javan80
Tied with 6 names at #1,296; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.