Brigg — boys' name
174 babies named Brigg in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 2011. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
52% of everyone ever named Brigg was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Brigg in 2011 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Brigg
The Social Security Administration has registered 174 babies named Brigg between 1971 and 2022, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brigg currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Brigg performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 90 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Brigg shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 25 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Brigg in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Brigg 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 174 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.
Brigg at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Brigg popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1971
- Peak year (2011)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 52 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
174 total births across 52 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2011 with 16 births in a single year.
Brigg by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 90 births that decade — 52% of Brigg's all-time total
Brigg decade highlights
- Peak decade 90 births
- Runner-up 46 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Brigg's strongest decade
90 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 52% of all-time use.
Brigg by state
Where Brigg concentrates geographically — total births since 1971
Top 5 states
- Utah 14.4% of nationwide
- Arizona 2.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Utah accounts for 14.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1971–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.