Briley
#2,194 for girls in 2025, 84 births · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to girls 83.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 485 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,618since 1982
Briley over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #2,194 | 84 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #1,925 | 103 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #1,802 | 112 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #1,490 | 146 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #1,641 | 127 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #1,474 | 145 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #1,460 | 151 | #4,639 | 21 |
| 2018 | #1,210 | 195 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | #1,154 | 214 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #985 | 270 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #915 | 300 | #3,513 | 31 |
| 2014 | #855 | 322 | #2,370 | 54 |
| 2013 | #765 | 356 | #2,562 | 47 |
| 2012 | #702 | 400 | #2,016 | 69 |
| 2011 | #654 | 435 | #1,849 | 76 |
| 2010 | #654 | 447 | #1,760 | 85 |
| 2009 | #622 | 485 | #1,873 | 77 |
| 2008 | #819 | 349 | #1,838 | 79 |
| 2007 | #884 | 315 | #1,972 | 71 |
| 2006 | #974 | 268 | #1,856 | 73 |
| 2005 | #1,085 | 219 | #1,554 | 90 |
| 2004 | #1,067 | 216 | #1,989 | 60 |
| 2003 | #1,590 | 121 | #2,180 | 50 |
| 2002 | #1,328 | 146 | #1,817 | 63 |
| 2001 | #1,458 | 129 | #2,277 | 44 |
| 2000 | #1,524 | 119 | #2,379 | 40 |
| 1999 | #1,719 | 94 | #2,300 | 39 |
| 1998 | #2,048 | 72 | #2,711 | 30 |
| 1997 | #2,391 | 55 | #2,613 | 30 |
| 1996 | #2,849 | 42 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #3,022 | 38 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #3,615 | 30 | #3,326 | 20 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #4,497 | 22 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | — | |
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| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Briley! It came in at #10,517, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1983, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Briley is popular in 2007
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Tennessee#223 · 1 in 986
- Kentucky#256 · 1 in 1,138
- Louisiana#259 · 1 in 1,114
- Oklahoma#268 · 1 in 1,113
- Alabama#301 · 1 in 1,334
Best ever in a state: #133 in Louisiana, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | #223 | 33 | 1 in 986 |
| Kentucky | #256 | 18 | 1 in 1,138 |
| Louisiana | #259 | 19 | 1 in 1,114 |
| Oklahoma | #268 | 16 | 1 in 1,113 |
| Alabama | #301 | 16 | 1 in 1,334 |
| Arkansas | #317 | 10 | 1 in 1,249 |
| Kansas | #327 | 10 | 1 in 1,407 |
| Missouri | #451 | 13 | 1 in 2,280 |
| New Mexico | #461 | 5 | 1 in 1,704 |
| Iowa | #555 | 5 | 1 in 2,787 |
| Ohio | #576 | 17 | 1 in 3,374 |
| Indiana | #578 | 11 | 1 in 3,013 |
| Utah | #581 | 7 | 1 in 2,802 |
| Georgia | #898 | 11 | 1 in 4,929 |
| Texas | #946 | 29 | 1 in 5,833 |
| Virginia | #1,023 | 6 | 1 in 6,412 |
| North Carolina | #1,109 | 7 | 1 in 6,873 |
| Illinois | #1,147 | 9 | 1 in 7,525 |
| Florida | #1,194 | 11 | 1 in 8,116 |
| California | #1,831 | 14 | 1 in 16,875 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Briley
- 269 spots since 2024 (#1,925 → #2,194)
- 720 spots since 2020 (#1,474 → #2,194)
- 1,279 spots since 2015 (#915 → #2,194)
- Biggest jump: 197 spots in 2009 (#819 → #622)
- Biggest drop: 169 spots in 2017 (#985 → #1,154)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2009 at #622 (485 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2006–2016
- Highest: 1 in 3,788 girls born in 2009 were named Briley (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,134 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 46.7% of all girls named Briley (3,090) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1992, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 42 | #7,353 (1987) | #8,989 |
| 1990s | 402 | #1,719 (1999) | #3,773 |
| 2000s | 2,367 | #622 (2009) | #1,135 |
| 2010s | 3,090 | #654 (2010) | #935 |
| 2020s | 717 | #1,474 (2020) | #1,754 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Briley in 2007
Top girls' names in 2007
Top boys' names in 2007
More about 2007
girls
1,922,617 girls got a published name in 2007; 1 in 6,104 of them was named Briley, which outranked 95.7% of the 20,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,075,414 boys got a published name in 2007; 1 in 29,231 of them was named Briley, which outranked 86.3% of the 14,394 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,951Oakley72
- #1,951Shamus72
- #1,951Tarik72
- #1,972Briley71
- #1,972Aeden71
- #1,972Alen71
- #1,972Alistair71
- #1,995Adarius70
- #1,995Akeem70
- #1,995Arath70
Tied with 22 names at #1,972; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.