Briggs
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #356 for boys in 2025, 921 births
Given to boys 99.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 1,059 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,377since 1927
Briggs over time
Rank among boys' names. Briggs has never cracked the top 300 here.
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 | #10,107 | 9 | #356 | 921 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | #327 | 1,059 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #337 | 987 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #388 | 824 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | #373 | 868 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #440 | 675 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #517 | 552 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #640 | 407 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #617 | 424 |
| 2016 | — | #658 | 397 | |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #745 | 324 |
| 2014 | — | #840 | 269 | |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #911 | 228 |
| 2012 | — | #968 | 208 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,043 | 182 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,175 | 154 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,226 | 146 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,523 | 106 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,912 | 74 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,150 | 60 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,433 | 47 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,452 | 45 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,470 | 42 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,554 | 24 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,520 | 38 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,330 | 41 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,608 | 33 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,877 | 17 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,678 | 18 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,109 | 11 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,771 | 9 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,114 | 14 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
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| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
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| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
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| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
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| 1960 | — | #2,535 | 11 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,033 | 8 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
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| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
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| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
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| 1927 | — | #2,703 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Briggs! It came in at #2,703, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1928–1944, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Briggs
- 29 spots since 2024 (#327 → #356)
- 84 spots since 2020 (#440 → #356)
- 389 spots since 2015 (#745 → #356)
- Biggest jump: 123 spots in 2019 (#640 → #517)
- Biggest drop: 29 spots in 2025 (#327 → #356)
- Debuted 1927
- Peaked 2024 at #327 (1,059 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2012–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,627 boys born in 2024 were named Briggs (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,855 boys born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 56.9% of all boys named Briggs (5,334) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | #2,703 (1927) | #2,703 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,645 (1935) | #3,645 |
| 1940s | 11 | #2,996 (1945) | #3,278 |
| 1950s | 18 | #3,033 (1958) | #3,636 |
| 1960s | 32 | #2,535 (1960) | #3,173 |
| 1970s | 5 | #6,056 (1979) | #6,056 |
| 1980s | 42 | #4,593 (1982) | #5,457 |
| 1990s | 152 | #2,608 (1999) | #4,670 |
| 2000s | 623 | #1,226 (2009) | #2,257 |
| 2010s | 3,145 | #517 (2019) | #811 |
| 2020s | 5,334 | #327 (2024) | #370 |
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.
Briggs in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 178,585 of them was named Briggs, which outranked 41.6% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #9,457Zuzu10
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- #9,457Zylie10
- #10,107Briggs9
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- #10,107Aaliah9
- #10,107Aanshi9
- #10,917Aadhyareddy8
- #10,917Aaila8
- #10,917Aairah8
Tied with 809 names at #10,107; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 1,855 of them was named Briggs, which outranked 97.4% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.