Brier — #6309 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Brier

The Social Security Administration has registered 584 babies named Brier between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brier currently holds the #6309 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 32 babies received it in a single year. Brier is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 330 additional births since 1989.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brier performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 242 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Brier shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Brier in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brier 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 584 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.