Bri

Where Bri comes from

The dictionaries list Bri as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Brianna, or Bridget, or Britney, or, rarely, Britannia or Sabrina — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1976
    First appearance
    #9,284 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2019
    Peak, #6,698
    17 babies named Bri — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Brianna, or Bridget, or Britney, or, rarely, Britannia or Sabrina.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Brian.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.