Meaning not yet researched.
Briar: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 778 in 2025. Its best rank was #400 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 66% of babies named Briar in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#400 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Briar: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 778 girls in 2025. Peak: #400 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 778 (2025).
In 2025, 778 US girls were named Briar, making it the 400th most common girls’ name of the year, up 122 places from #522 in 2024. That is 189 more than the 589 girls named Briar in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #400, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 778. For comparison, it was #836 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 397 US boys were named Briar, making it the 686th most common boys’ name of the year, up 12 places from #698 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 387 boys named Briar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #671, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 405. For comparison, it was #1,006 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Briar in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 13,349 US babies have been given the name, 52% of them girls and 48% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,830 babies named Briar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,315 US girls were named Briar; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 778. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,066 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Briar ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #75 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Bria (16,870 babies since 1880), Bryer (2,946 babies since 1880) and Bryar (2,715 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brier, Bryor and Brior are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brier (955), Bryor (250), Brior (7).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Briar in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 12 | #75 | — |
| North Dakota | 9 | #103 | #116 |
| Iowa | 29 | #106 | #235 |
| New Hampshire | 10 | #124 | — |
| Nebraska | 13 | #170 | #322 |
| Kansas | 19 | #172 | #639 |
| Montana | 6 | #173 | #226 |
| Idaho | 11 | #197 | #221 |
| Utah | 23 | #198 | #433 |
| Oklahoma | 20 | #199 | #680 |
| Wisconsin | 25 | #221 | #583 |
| Minnesota | 25 | #223 | #447 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #234 | — |
| Arkansas | 13 | #235 | #513 |
| Missouri | 26 | #240 | #422 |
| Indiana | 27 | #260 | #972 |
| Virginia | 29 | #290 | #683 |
| Oregon | 12 | #301 | — |
| Michigan | 29 | #306 | #675 |
| Tennessee | 24 | #338 | — |
| Louisiana | 13 | #347 | #798 |
| Ohio | 32 | #350 | #846 |
| Washington | 20 | #356 | #780 |
| Illinois | 27 | #387 | #695 |
| Texas | 81 | #416 | #1,237 |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #433 | #637 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #452 | #569 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #478 | — |
| Georgia | 21 | #531 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #537 | — |
| North Carolina | 20 | #540 | #1,003 |
| Colorado | 10 | #547 | #625 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #550 | — |
| Arizona | 10 | #641 | #984 |
| Florida | 26 | #655 | #947 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #693 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #790 | — |
| New York | 20 | #798 | #2,012 |
| Alabama | 5 | #838 | #830 |
| Maryland | 5 | #864 | #912 |
| California | 27 | #1,002 | #1,261 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 778 | #400 | 397 | #686 |
| 2024 | 589 | #522 | 387 | #698 |
| 2023 | 550 | #549 | 405 | #671 |
| 2022 | 579 | #534 | 347 | #741 |
| 2021 | 597 | #516 | 364 | #714 |
| 2020 | 519 | #567 | 318 | #757 |
| 2019 | 529 | #578 | 302 | #775 |
| 2018 | 422 | #687 | 278 | #810 |
| 2017 | 397 | #722 | 244 | #882 |
| 2016 | 355 | #801 | 203 | #1,008 |
| 2015 | 336 | #836 | 203 | #1,006 |
| 2014 | 158 | #1,437 | 203 | #1,008 |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,868 | 161 | #1,128 |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,860 | 189 | #1,030 |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,911 | 172 | #1,083 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,590 | 173 | #1,105 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,571 | 138 | #1,273 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,276 | 152 | #1,176 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,544 | 139 | #1,263 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,139 | 132 | #1,266 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,502 | 117 | #1,303 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,837 | 125 | #1,218 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,361 | 132 | #1,142 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,822 | 101 | #1,316 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,498 | 107 | #1,243 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,674 | 101 | #1,282 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,991 | 68 | #1,594 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,743 | 59 | #1,723 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,829 | 72 | #1,481 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,610 | 83 | #1,315 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,007 | 105 | #1,107 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,540 | 81 | #1,296 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,405 | 54 | #1,639 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,081 | 59 | #1,511 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,983 | 92 | #1,147 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,343 | 43 | #1,813 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,021 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,491 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,086 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,107 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,862 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,578 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,562 | 5 | #6,484 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,922 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,263 | 5 | #6,367 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,138 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,022 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,562 | 7 | #4,644 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,685 | 6 | #4,999 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,225 | 8 | #3,990 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,910 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,525 | 5 | #5,191 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,415 | — | — |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #4,996 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).