Brier
- #7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- #3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births
- Given to boys 64.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 32 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 611since 1991
Brier over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 | #3,949 | 27 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #3,912 | 27 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #4,114 | 25 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #4,226 | 24 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #3,441 | 32 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | #4,407 | 22 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #4,313 | 22 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #3,714 | 28 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #4,659 | 20 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 | #4,429 | 22 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #3,893 | 26 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #5,278 | 15 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #4,129 | 21 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | — | #5,002 | 11 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #5,521 | 9 |
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First appearance
1991
The first year at least five boys were named Brier! It came in at #5,521, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997–1998, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Brier is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Brier in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Brier
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 2,250 spots since 2024 (#6,199 → #3,949)
- 591 spots since 2020 (#4,540 → #3,949)
- 458 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #3,949)
Rise & fade · boys
25 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2016 at #3,441 (32 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 59,304
- Highest: 1 in 59,304 boys born in 2016 were named Brier (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 63,262 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 39.6% of all boys named Brier (242) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2001
- Mostly girls until 2000, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 78 | #4,396 (1996) | #6,447 |
| 2000s | 171 | #3,893 (2007) | #5,057 |
| 2010s | 242 | #3,441 (2016) | #4,178 |
| 2020s | 120 | #3,912 (2021) | #5,027 |
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.
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