Girls' name · since 1959
Briggette
Briggette has 184 recorded births since 1959 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1965 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #20,640 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 184
- born since 1959
- 1960s
- peak decade
Briggette is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 184 have been recorded since 1959.
Briggette has 184 recorded births among girls since 1959, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1959 to 1990.
- #20,640 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 184 born since 1959
- 1960s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Briggette ranks #20,640 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 184 born since 1959, peaking in the 1960s.
- #20,640 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 184
- born since 1959
- 1960s
- peak decade
Briggette's 184 recorded births place it above 71.39% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Briggette's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Briggette's SSA record in two at 1969 and the more recent half accounts for 37% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 63%, consistent with a name more common in the past than in recent years. Its calmest year was 1974, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1965 peak of 19, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Briggette popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1959–1990
- Peak year (1965)
- 19
- Annual births at peak, across 32 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000, last recorded 1990.
184 total births across 32 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1965 with 19 births in a single year.
Briggette by decade
1960s is the heaviest window (105 births, 57% of the file).
1960s was Briggette's strongest decade.
105 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 57% of all-time use.
Briggette births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 18
1950s
18 births
- 1960s
1960s
105 births
- 1970s 25
1970s
25 births
- 1980s 28
1980s
28 births
- 1990s 8
1990s
8 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 105 births (57% of all-time use).
Briggette decade highlights
- Peak decade 105 births
- Runner-up 28 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
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What to do with Briggette's data
- Briggette's decade-level peak was the 1960s (105 total births); usage has since declined to 8 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Briggette: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1965)
Similar record span (~31 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1959–1990 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Briggette draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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