Briggs

#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #356 for boys in 2025, 921 births
Given to boys 99.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
2024 · 1,059 births
Debut · boys
10 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
9,377
since 1927

Briggs over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Briggs has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201927boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,1079#356921
2024#8,44312#3271,059
2023#8,98911#337987
2022#10,3839#388824
2021#7,25015#373868
2020#10,2509#440675
2019#15,5395#517552
2018#11,4278#640407
2017#15,9025#617424
2016—#658397
2015#10,14810#745324
2014—#840269
2013#14,5826#911228
2012—#968208
2011—#1,043182
2010—#1,175154
2009—#1,226146
2008—#1,523106
2007—#1,91274
2006—#2,15060
2005—#2,43347
2004—#2,45245
2003—#2,47042
2002—#3,55424
2001—#2,52038
2000—#2,33041
1999—#2,60833
1998—#3,19124
1997—#3,87717
1996—#3,67818
1995—#5,12411
1994—#5,10911
1993—#5,7719
1992—#4,11414
1991—#8,2365
1990—#4,99310
1989—#5,1659
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1986—#4,8538
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1982—#4,5938
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1979—#6,0565
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1967—#2,7609
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1959—#3,9885
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First appearance
1927

The first year at least five boys were named Briggs! It came in at #2,703, and was given to 10 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1928–1944, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Briggs is popular in 1927

No state had 5 or more boys named Briggs in 1927, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Briggs
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 29 spots since 2024 (#327 → #356)
  • 84 spots since 2020 (#440 → #356)
  • 389 spots since 2015 (#745 → #356)
  • Biggest jump: 123 spots in 2019 (#640 → #517)
  • Biggest drop: 29 spots in 2025 (#327 → #356)
Rise & fade · boys
97 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1927
  • Peaked 2024 at #327 (1,059 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 14 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2012–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 1,627
  • Highest: 1 in 1,627 boys born in 2024 were named Briggs (0.06%)
  • Latest: 1 in 1,855 boys born in 2025 (0.05%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 56.9% of all boys named Briggs (5,334) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s10#2,703 (1927)#2,703
1930s5#3,645 (1935)#3,645
1940s11#2,996 (1945)#3,278
1950s18#3,033 (1958)#3,636
1960s32#2,535 (1960)#3,173
1970s5#6,056 (1979)#6,056
1980s42#4,593 (1982)#5,457
1990s152#2,608 (1999)#4,670
2000s623#1,226 (2009)#2,257
2010s3,145#517 (2019)#811
2020s5,334#327 (2024)#370

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.

Briggs in 1927

boys
#2,703
10 births · 1 in 112,692 boys

Top boys' names in 1927

  1. #1Robert61,674
  2. #2John55,949
  3. #3James53,674
  4. #4William51,476
  5. #5Charles31,941
  6. #6Richard26,768
  7. #7George25,949
  8. #8Donald23,834
  9. #9Joseph23,503
  10. #10Edward19,115
  11. #2,703Briggs10
More about 1927

boys

1,126,915 boys got a published name in 1927; 1 in 112,692 of them was named Briggs, which outranked 43.7% of the 4,802 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Briggs
  1. #2,523Weslie11
  2. #2,523Wilmar11
  3. #2,523Yoshiaki11
  4. #2,703Briggs10
  5. #2,703Achilles10
  6. #2,703Aden10
  7. #2,703Agustus10
  8. #2,912Alban9
  9. #2,912Albertus9
  10. #2,912Albion9

Tied with 208 names at #2,703; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1926
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,863Lindbergh#2,436 → #573
  2. ↑ 966Lindy#1,353 → #387
  3. ↑ 601Sonny#1,565 → #964
  4. ↑ 467Akira#1,404 → #937
  5. ↑ 442Maria#1,432 → #990
Fallers
  1. ↓ 684Minoru#963 → #1,647
  2. ↓ 611Reno#825 → #1,436
  3. ↓ 406Hurley#916 → #1,322
  4. ↓ 356Adelbert#842 → #1,198
  5. ↓ 330Gardner#963 → #1,293

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1927 →