Briley

Where Briley comes from

Uncertain. Possibly a variant of Brierley.
— Wiktionary's entry for Briley
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1982
    First appearance
    #10,517 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1993
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2009
    Peak, #622
    485 babies named Briley — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,154.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely known Briley turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.