Briar
#400 for girls in 2025, 778 births · #686 for boys in 2025, 397 births
Given to girls 52.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 778 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,002since 1972
Briar over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #400 | 778 | #686 | 397 |
| 2024 | #522 | 589 | #698 | 387 |
| 2023 | #549 | 550 | #671 | 405 |
| 2022 | #534 | 579 | #741 | 347 |
| 2021 | #516 | 597 | #714 | 364 |
| 2020 | #567 | 519 | #756 | 318 |
| 2019 | #578 | 529 | #775 | 302 |
| 2018 | #687 | 422 | #809 | 278 |
| 2017 | #722 | 397 | #882 | 244 |
| 2016 | #801 | 355 | #1,006 | 203 |
| 2015 | #835 | 336 | #1,006 | 203 |
| 2014 | #1,436 | 158 | #1,008 | 203 |
| 2013 | #1,866 | 108 | #1,128 | 161 |
| 2012 | #1,859 | 108 | #1,030 | 189 |
| 2011 | #1,909 | 104 | #1,082 | 172 |
| 2010 | #2,589 | 70 | #1,105 | 173 |
| 2009 | #2,568 | 72 | #1,272 | 138 |
| 2008 | #3,267 | 51 | #1,175 | 152 |
| 2007 | #2,541 | 73 | #1,263 | 139 |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 | #1,265 | 132 |
| 2005 | #4,487 | 30 | #1,302 | 117 |
| 2004 | #3,819 | 37 | #1,216 | 125 |
| 2003 | #3,347 | 43 | #1,141 | 132 |
| 2002 | #3,810 | 34 | #1,315 | 101 |
| 2001 | #3,486 | 38 | #1,242 | 107 |
| 2000 | #3,664 | 35 | #1,282 | 101 |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 | #1,593 | 68 |
| 1998 | #3,730 | 31 | #1,719 | 59 |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 | #1,480 | 72 |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 | #1,314 | 83 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | #1,107 | 105 |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 | #1,296 | 81 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 | #1,638 | 54 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 | #1,510 | 59 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #1,147 | 92 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #1,809 | 43 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | — | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | — | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | — | |
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| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 | — | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | — | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Briar! It came in at #8,292, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Briar is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wyoming#76 · 1 in 166
- North Dakota#129 · 1 in 368
- Alaska#135 · 1 in 339
- Iowa#147 · 1 in 554
- Montana#180 · 1 in 473
Best ever in a state: #50 in North Dakota, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | #76 | 5 | 1 in 166 |
| North Dakota | #129 | 7 | 1 in 368 |
| Alaska | #135 | 5 | 1 in 339 |
| Iowa | #147 | 21 | 1 in 554 |
| Montana | #180 | 6 | 1 in 473 |
| South Dakota | #190 | 6 | 1 in 510 |
| Oklahoma | #198 | 20 | 1 in 734 |
| West Virginia | #198 | 8 | 1 in 650 |
| Idaho | #219 | 10 | 1 in 692 |
| Kansas | #228 | 14 | 1 in 821 |
| Nebraska | #236 | 10 | 1 in 749 |
| Missouri | #252 | 23 | 1 in 1,034 |
| Oregon | #264 | 14 | 1 in 938 |
| Michigan | #272 | 32 | 1 in 1,117 |
| Minnesota | #300 | 18 | 1 in 1,185 |
| Illinois | #353 | 30 | 1 in 1,498 |
| Utah | #365 | 12 | 1 in 1,411 |
| Kentucky | #384 | 12 | 1 in 1,457 |
| Tennessee | #408 | 19 | 1 in 1,685 |
| Ohio | #415 | 26 | 1 in 1,800 |
| Arkansas | #416 | 7 | 1 in 1,505 |
| Colorado | #455 | 12 | 1 in 1,894 |
| Louisiana | #458 | 10 | 1 in 1,706 |
| Wisconsin | #463 | 11 | 1 in 1,846 |
| Connecticut | #473 | 6 | 1 in 1,896 |
| Washington | #480 | 14 | 1 in 2,077 |
| Indiana | #484 | 14 | 1 in 2,010 |
| South Carolina | #508 | 9 | 1 in 2,025 |
| Virginia | #548 | 14 | 1 in 2,432 |
| Pennsylvania | #580 | 18 | 1 in 2,574 |
| Massachusetts | #616 | 8 | 1 in 3,019 |
| Georgia | #638 | 16 | 1 in 2,844 |
| Texas | #663 | 49 | 1 in 3,334 |
| Arizona | #729 | 9 | 1 in 3,116 |
| North Carolina | #779 | 12 | 1 in 3,852 |
| Alabama | #829 | 5 | 1 in 3,741 |
| Florida | #870 | 18 | 1 in 4,795 |
| New York | #969 | 16 | 1 in 4,913 |
| California | #1,222 | 21 | 1 in 7,888 |
| Delaware | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Briar
- 122 spots since 2024 (#522 → #400)
- 167 spots since 2020 (#567 → #400)
- 435 spots since 2015 (#835 → #400)
- Biggest jump: 601 spots in 2015 (#1,436 → #835)
- Biggest drop: 18 spots in 2022 (#516 → #534)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2025 at #400 (778 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2015–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,066 girls born in 2025 were named Briar (0.05%)
- 51.6% of all girls named Briar (3,612) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2014, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 50 | #6,611 (1976) | #7,954 |
| 1980s | 75 | #5,539 (1984) | #7,999 |
| 1990s | 212 | #3,730 (1998) | #5,216 |
| 2000s | 466 | #2,541 (2007) | #3,413 |
| 2010s | 2,587 | #578 (2019) | #1,328 |
| 2020s | 3,612 | #400 (2025) | #515 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Briar in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 2,751 of them was named Briar, which outranked 97.1% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 4,452 of them was named Briar, which outranked 95.1% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.