Briar — #523 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Briar

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,222 babies named Briar between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Briar currently holds the #523 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 597 babies received it in a single year. Briar is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,948 additional births since 1971.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Briar performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 2,833 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Briar shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 424 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Briar in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Briar in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,222 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.