Meaning not yet researched.
Brien: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #767 in 1963.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #767 in 1963; #9,864 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brien in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,864 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1963, at #767.
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Brien: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #767 in 1963 · most boys in one year: 99 (1963).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Brien, making it the 9,864th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,288 places from #11,152 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 6 boys named Brien in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #767, reached in 1963. That year also had the most boys given the name: 99. For comparison, it was #8,134 in 2015 and #1,400 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brien in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 5 babies. In all, 3,593 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 846 babies named Brien.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 55 US boys were named Brien; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brian (1,178,298 babies since 1880), Brion (2,896 babies since 1880), Bryan (391,306 babies since 1880) and Brynn (30,211 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Brien in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 7 | #9,864 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #11,152 |
| 2021 | — | — | 5 | #12,427 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #9,722 |
| 2018 | — | — | 11 | #7,194 |
| 2017 | — | — | 12 | #6,746 |
| 2016 | — | — | 7 | #9,820 |
| 2015 | — | — | 9 | #8,134 |
| 2014 | — | — | 6 | #10,913 |
| 2013 | — | — | 13 | #6,290 |
| 2012 | — | — | 13 | #6,363 |
| 2011 | — | — | 9 | #8,170 |
| 2010 | — | — | 12 | #6,740 |
| 2009 | — | — | 13 | #6,483 |
| 2008 | — | — | 11 | #7,264 |
| 2007 | — | — | 23 | #4,255 |
| 2006 | — | — | 24 | #4,014 |
| 2005 | — | — | 27 | #3,539 |
| 2004 | — | — | 23 | #3,875 |
| 2003 | — | — | 33 | #2,932 |
| 2002 | — | — | 36 | #2,641 |
| 2001 | — | — | 25 | #3,425 |
| 2000 | — | — | 30 | #2,925 |
| 1999 | — | — | 49 | #1,967 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,103 |
| 1997 | — | — | 46 | #1,969 |
| 1996 | — | — | 44 | #1,990 |
| 1995 | — | — | 48 | #1,803 |
| 1994 | — | — | 54 | #1,668 |
| 1993 | — | — | 40 | #2,012 |
| 1992 | — | — | 62 | #1,473 |
| 1991 | — | — | 41 | #1,898 |
| 1990 | — | — | 52 | #1,589 |
| 1989 | — | — | 57 | #1,455 |
| 1988 | — | — | 61 | #1,321 |
| 1987 | — | — | 48 | #1,484 |
| 1986 | — | — | 48 | #1,441 |
| 1985 | — | — | 68 | #1,126 |
| 1984 | — | — | 50 | #1,326 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,453 | 65 | #1,107 |
| 1982 | — | — | 61 | #1,180 |
| 1981 | — | — | 69 | #1,095 |
| 1980 | — | — | 74 | #1,048 |
| 1979 | — | — | 61 | #1,156 |
| 1978 | — | — | 66 | #1,066 |
| 1977 | — | — | 47 | #1,316 |
| 1976 | — | — | 57 | #1,124 |
| 1975 | — | — | 68 | #995 |
| 1974 | — | — | 69 | #989 |
| 1973 | — | — | 81 | #886 |
| 1972 | — | — | 69 | #977 |
| 1971 | — | — | 87 | #874 |
| 1970 | — | — | 84 | #881 |
| 1969 | — | — | 97 | #783 |
| 1968 | — | — | 89 | #784 |
| 1967 | — | — | 89 | #774 |
| 1966 | — | — | 85 | #786 |
| 1965 | — | — | 70 | #874 |
| 1964 | — | — | 82 | #841 |
| 1963 | — | — | 99 | #767 |
| 1962 | — | — | 71 | #902 |
| 1961 | — | — | 93 | #791 |
| 1960 | — | — | 71 | #898 |
| 1959 | — | — | 76 | #875 |
| 1958 | — | — | 72 | #889 |
| 1957 | — | — | 69 | #914 |
| 1956 | — | — | 53 | #1,036 |
| 1955 | — | — | 41 | #1,171 |
| 1954 | — | — | 40 | #1,187 |
| 1953 | — | — | 34 | #1,287 |
| 1952 | — | — | 40 | #1,169 |
| 1951 | — | — | 26 | #1,467 |
| 1950 | — | — | 27 | #1,400 |
| 1949 | — | — | 25 | #1,467 |
| 1948 | — | — | 14 | #2,037 |
| 1947 | — | — | 17 | #1,856 |
| 1946 | — | — | 17 | #1,769 |
| 1945 | — | — | 13 | #1,939 |
| 1944 | — | — | 13 | #2,000 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #2,994 |
| 1942 | — | — | 10 | #2,400 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #2,901 |
| 1939 | — | — | 11 | #2,179 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,040 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,278 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,280 |
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).