Bri
Bri was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,559 among girls’ names; 315 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bri is “a diminutive of the female given name Brianna, or Bridget, or Britney, or, rarely, Britannia or Sabrina.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Brian.”
/bɹiː/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bri?
#9,559 among girls’ names, 2025
Bri fell from #8,541 in 2015 to #9,559 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 6.2 per million.
18 babies in 2007, the peak
Bri peaked in 2007, when 18 girls were given it, #7,132 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,559 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,417 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,085 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,698 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,429 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,675 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,761 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,946 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,838 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,025 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,541 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,310 | 3.9 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,827 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,325 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,557 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,571 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,086 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,132 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,449 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,911 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,166 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,555 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,457 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,869 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,907 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,560 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,142 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,916 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,622 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,626 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,428 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,253 | 4.2 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,213 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,135 | 4.4 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,448 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bri has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bri, and how old are they?
An estimated 311 Americans named Bri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,682 people named Bri (2,484 women and girls, 198 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 251 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Bri rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 21,960 babies since 1880, Bri is the fifth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 269 babies (3.7%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bri
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bri and names like it
- Compare Bri and BriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBri peaked in 2007.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Bri.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bri alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.