Brien
Last seen for girls in 1983 at #10,275 · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1963 · 99 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,588since 1925
Brien over time
Rank among boys' names. Brien has never cracked the top 700 here.
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 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2024 | — | #10,938 | 6 | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | — | #12,146 | 5 | |
| 2020 | — | #9,554 | 7 | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | #7,136 | 11 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,685 | 12 | |
| 2016 | — | #9,664 | 7 | |
| 2015 | — | #8,040 | 9 | |
| 2014 | — | #10,717 | 6 | |
| 2013 | — | #6,241 | 13 | |
| 2012 | — | #6,306 | 13 | |
| 2011 | — | #8,079 | 9 | |
| 2010 | — | #6,698 | 12 | |
| 2009 | — | #6,436 | 13 | |
| 2008 | — | #7,187 | 11 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,243 | 23 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,001 | 24 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,528 | 27 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,860 | 23 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,922 | 33 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,632 | 36 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,410 | 25 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,922 | 30 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,966 | 49 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,092 | 25 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,964 | 46 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,986 | 44 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,801 | 48 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,664 | 54 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,007 | 40 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,472 | 62 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,895 | 41 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,587 | 52 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,452 | 57 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,319 | 61 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,484 | 48 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,439 | 48 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,125 | 68 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,320 | 50 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #1,107 | 65 |
| 1982 | — | #1,179 | 61 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,095 | 69 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,047 | 74 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,154 | 61 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,066 | 66 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,312 | 47 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,123 | 57 | |
| 1975 | — | #994 | 68 | |
| 1974 | — | #988 | 69 | |
| 1973 | — | #885 | 81 | |
| 1972 | — | #976 | 69 | |
| 1971 | — | #873 | 87 | |
| 1970 | — | #881 | 84 | |
| 1969 | — | #782 | 97 | |
| 1968 | — | #784 | 89 | |
| 1967 | — | #774 | 89 | |
| 1966 | — | #785 | 85 | |
| 1965 | — | #873 | 70 | |
| 1964 | — | #839 | 82 | |
| 1963 | — | #766 | 99 | |
| 1962 | — | #902 | 71 | |
| 1961 | — | #790 | 93 | |
| 1960 | — | #897 | 71 | |
| 1959 | — | #875 | 76 | |
| 1958 | — | #889 | 72 | |
| 1957 | — | #913 | 69 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,032 | 53 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,167 | 41 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,186 | 40 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,280 | 34 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,166 | 40 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,462 | 26 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,395 | 27 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,462 | 25 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,027 | 14 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,850 | 17 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,759 | 17 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,926 | 13 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,988 | 13 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,964 | 7 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,386 | 10 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
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| 1939 | — | #2,159 | 11 | |
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| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
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| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brien! It came in at #4,197, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1925–1932, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Brien is popular in 1967
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#422 · 1 in 7,778
- Pennsylvania#541 · 1 in 15,358
- Ohio#557 · 1 in 14,987
- Illinois#576 · 1 in 11,570
- California#708 · 1 in 15,079
Best ever in a state: #191 in Connecticut, 1949.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #422 | 10 | 1 in 7,778 |
| Pennsylvania | #541 | 6 | 1 in 15,358 |
| Ohio | #557 | 6 | 1 in 14,987 |
| Illinois | #576 | 8 | 1 in 11,570 |
| California | #708 | 11 | 1 in 15,079 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Brien
- 1,224 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #9,714)
- 160 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #9,714)
- 1,674 spots since 2015 (#8,040 → #9,714)
- Biggest jump: 136 spots in 1963 (#902 → #766)
- Biggest drop: 129 spots in 1976 (#994 → #1,123)
- Debuted 1925
- Peaked 1963 at #766 (99 births)
- Births halved by 1977, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 1957–1975
- Highest: 1 in 18,435 boys born in 1969 were named Brien (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #766 in 1963, was only 1 in 20,516 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.6% of all boys named Brien (846) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | #4,197 (1925) | #4,199 |
| 1930s | 18 | #2,159 (1939) | #2,582 |
| 1940s | 123 | #1,462 (1949) | #2,137 |
| 1950s | 478 | #875 (1959) | #1,137 |
| 1960s | 846 | #766 (1963) | #819 |
| 1970s | 689 | #873 (1971) | #1,025 |
| 1980s | 601 | #1,047 (1980) | #1,257 |
| 1990s | 461 | #1,472 (1992) | #1,943 |
| 2000s | 245 | #2,632 (2002) | #4,114 |
| 2010s | 92 | #6,241 (2013) | #7,730 |
| 2020s | 25 | #9,554 (2020) | #10,588 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brien in 1967
Top boys' names in 1967
More about 1967
boys
1,743,811 boys got a published name in 1967; 1 in 19,593 of them was named Brien, which outranked 83.0% of the 4,551 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).