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Briggs: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 921 in 2025. Its best rank was #327 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #327 in 2024; #356 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Briggs in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#356 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #327.
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Briggs: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 921 boys in 2025. Peak: #327 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 1,059 (2024).
In 2025, 921 US boys were named Briggs, making it the 356th most common boys’ name of the year, down 29 places from #327 in 2024. That is 138 fewer than the 1,059 boys named Briggs in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #327, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,059. For comparison, it was #746 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Briggs in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1927 with 10 babies. In all, 9,476 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,399 babies named Briggs.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,114 US boys were named Briggs; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,059. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,855 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Briggs ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #55 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC).
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 18 | #55 | — |
| Wyoming | 5 | #94 | — |
| South Dakota | 12 | #107 | #137 |
| Nebraska | 23 | #114 | #231 |
| Minnesota | 46 | #141 | #255 |
| Utah | 37 | #141 | #164 |
| Louisiana | 34 | #148 | #363 |
| Mississippi | 18 | #174 | #337 |
| Alabama | 31 | #186 | — |
| Idaho | 13 | #199 | #243 |
| Arkansas | 18 | #200 | — |
| Wisconsin | 30 | #204 | #515 |
| Iowa | 19 | #208 | #261 |
| West Virginia | 8 | #229 | — |
| Montana | 5 | #235 | — |
| Maine | 5 | #235 | — |
| Indiana | 33 | #247 | #810 |
| Tennessee | 31 | #282 | #750 |
| Kentucky | 19 | #283 | — |
| Ohio | 42 | #290 | #599 |
| Georgia | 42 | #294 | #501 |
| South Carolina | 17 | #313 | #447 |
| Michigan | 30 | #314 | — |
| Kansas | 11 | #329 | #524 |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #330 | #643 |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | #332 | — |
| Missouri | 18 | #351 | #835 |
| Colorado | 17 | #369 | — |
| Oregon | 9 | #402 | — |
| Texas | 88 | #403 | #945 |
| Florida | 46 | #421 | #1,107 |
| Illinois | 23 | #457 | #646 |
| North Carolina | 23 | #462 | #1,011 |
| Virginia | 16 | #476 | — |
| Arizona | 10 | #643 | #795 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #706 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #818 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #822 | — |
| California | 25 | #911 | #2,614 |
| New York | 11 | #1,066 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,243 | 921 | #356 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,545 | 1,059 | #327 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,093 | 987 | #337 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,540 | 824 | #388 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,327 | 868 | #373 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,412 | 675 | #440 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,961 | 552 | #517 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,593 | 407 | #641 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,310 | 424 | #617 |
| 2016 | — | — | 397 | #658 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,277 | 324 | #746 |
| 2014 | — | — | 269 | #840 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,943 | 228 | #912 |
| 2012 | — | — | 208 | #968 |
| 2011 | — | — | 182 | #1,043 |
| 2010 | — | — | 154 | #1,175 |
| 2009 | — | — | 146 | #1,227 |
| 2008 | — | — | 106 | #1,525 |
| 2007 | — | — | 74 | #1,914 |
| 2006 | — | — | 60 | #2,152 |
| 2005 | — | — | 47 | #2,435 |
| 2004 | — | — | 45 | #2,458 |
| 2003 | — | — | 42 | #2,477 |
| 2002 | — | — | 24 | #3,567 |
| 2001 | — | — | 38 | #2,525 |
| 2000 | — | — | 41 | #2,338 |
| 1999 | — | — | 33 | #2,615 |
| 1998 | — | — | 24 | #3,205 |
| 1997 | — | — | 17 | #3,901 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,696 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,165 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,143 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #5,818 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,130 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,358 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,033 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,214 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,081 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #4,902 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,358 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,646 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #4,995 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,164 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,403 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,795 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,109 |
| 1960 | — | — | 11 | #2,551 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,055 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,062 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #3,943 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,023 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,623 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,712 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,720 |
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).