Brigham
#1,886 for boys in 2025, 83 births
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 137 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,371since 1916
Brigham over time
Rank among boys' names. Brigham has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,886 | 83 |
| 2024 | #2,190 | 66 |
| 2023 | #2,147 | 67 |
| 2022 | #2,269 | 63 |
| 2021 | #1,710 | 95 |
| 2020 | #1,679 | 94 |
| 2019 | #1,670 | 96 |
| 2018 | #1,584 | 105 |
| 2017 | #1,510 | 110 |
| 2016 | #1,443 | 120 |
| 2015 | #1,588 | 101 |
| 2014 | #1,465 | 111 |
| 2013 | #1,321 | 130 |
| 2012 | #1,314 | 130 |
| 2011 | #1,257 | 137 |
| 2010 | #1,543 | 104 |
| 2009 | #1,654 | 95 |
| 2008 | #1,603 | 98 |
| 2007 | #1,607 | 97 |
| 2006 | #1,583 | 92 |
| 2005 | #1,674 | 80 |
| 2004 | #1,582 | 83 |
| 2003 | #1,717 | 71 |
| 2002 | #1,459 | 87 |
| 2001 | #1,415 | 88 |
| 2000 | #1,609 | 73 |
| 1999 | #1,801 | 55 |
| 1998 | #1,680 | 61 |
| 1997 | #1,599 | 63 |
| 1996 | #2,332 | 34 |
| 1995 | #2,299 | 34 |
| 1994 | #2,347 | 33 |
| 1993 | #3,141 | 21 |
| 1992 | #3,105 | 21 |
| 1991 | #2,753 | 24 |
| 1990 | #3,058 | 20 |
| 1989 | #2,469 | 26 |
| 1988 | #2,437 | 24 |
| 1987 | #2,725 | 19 |
| 1986 | #2,601 | 20 |
| 1985 | #2,427 | 21 |
| 1984 | #2,098 | 25 |
| 1983 | #2,493 | 19 |
| 1982 | #1,850 | 30 |
| 1981 | #1,766 | 32 |
| 1980 | #1,726 | 33 |
| 1979 | #2,310 | 21 |
| 1978 | #2,134 | 22 |
| 1977 | #1,780 | 29 |
| 1976 | #2,417 | 18 |
| 1975 | #2,205 | 20 |
| 1974 | #2,129 | 20 |
| 1973 | #2,513 | 15 |
| 1972 | #2,418 | 15 |
| 1971 | #2,558 | 14 |
| 1970 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | #2,415 | 13 |
| 1968 | #2,311 | 13 |
| 1967 | #2,611 | 10 |
| 1966 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | #3,282 | 7 |
| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #2,673 | 10 |
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| 1960 | #3,077 | 8 |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 6 |
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| 1916 | #3,897 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brigham! It came in at #3,897, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1958, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Brigham is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#213 · 1 in 706
- Utah#259 · 1 in 975
- Arizona#657 · 1 in 4,274
- Indiana#921 · 1 in 6,793
- Ohio#1,088 · 1 in 9,552
Best ever in a state: #133 in Utah, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Idaho | #213 | 11 | 1 in 706 |
| Utah | #259 | 20 | 1 in 975 |
| Arizona | #657 | 8 | 1 in 4,274 |
| Indiana | #921 | 5 | 1 in 6,793 |
| Ohio | #1,088 | 6 | 1 in 9,552 |
| Texas | #1,660 | 9 | 1 in 19,431 |
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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 Brigham
- 304 spots since 2024 (#2,190 → #1,886)
- 207 spots since 2020 (#1,679 → #1,886)
- 298 spots since 2015 (#1,588 → #1,886)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2011 at #1,257 (137 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,863 boys born in 2011 were named Brigham (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,579 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.9% of all boys named Brigham (1,144) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,897 (1916) | #3,897 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,151 (1928) | #4,151 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,619 (1959) | #3,619 |
| 1960s | 79 | #2,311 (1968) | #3,022 |
| 1970s | 185 | #1,780 (1977) | #2,336 |
| 1980s | 249 | #1,726 (1980) | #2,259 |
| 1990s | 366 | #1,599 (1997) | #2,412 |
| 2000s | 864 | #1,415 (2001) | #1,590 |
| 2010s | 1,144 | #1,257 (2011) | #1,470 |
| 2020s | 468 | #1,679 (2020) | #1,980 |
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.
Brigham in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 17,297 of them was named Brigham, which outranked 88.8% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,576Merritt106
- #1,576Noam106
- #1,576Thor106
- #1,584Brigham105
- #1,584Jaxyn105
- #1,584Keelan105
- #1,584Khaled105
- #1,591Auden104
- #1,591Shaurya104
- #1,593Arnold103
Tied with 6 names at #1,584; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.