Briah
Briah was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,449 among girls’ names; 794 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Briah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Briah?
#8,449 among girls’ names, 2025
Briah fell from #5,152 in 2015 to #8,449 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 7.5 per million.
35 babies in 1997, the peak
Briah peaked in 1997, when 35 girls were given it, #3,305 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,449 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,670 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,126 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,699 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,213 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,277 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,421 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,161 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,331 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,161 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,152 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,021 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,032 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,738 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,393 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,627 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,564 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,464 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,583 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,595 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,463 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,783 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,445 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,929 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,107 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,418 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,736 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,381 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,305 | 20.1 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,637 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,784 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,903 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,352 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,506 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,402 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,981 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,327 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Briah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Briah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Briah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Briah, and how old are they?
An estimated 785 Americans named Briah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 637 people named Briah (598 women and girls, 39 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 708 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Briah?
Briah is a less common spelling of Bria: SSA has recorded 794 Briah and 16,870 Bria since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,273 babies since 1880, Briah is the third most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 283 babies (4.2%), again the third most given.
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 Briah
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 Briah and names like it
- Compare Briah and BriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBriah peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Briah since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Briah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Briah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.