Briggs
Briggs was given to 921 boys in 2025, #356 among boys’ names; 9,476 Americans have been recorded with it since 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,370 Americans named Briggs and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Briggs by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Briggs?
#356 among boys’ names, 2025
Briggs rose from #746 in 2015 to #356 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.17 to 0.54 per 1,000.
1,071 babies in 2024, the peak
Briggs peaked in 2024, when 1,071 babies were given it (1,059 boys, #327 among boys’ names). The 930 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 87% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 921 | #356 | 0.54 |
| 2024 | 1,059 | #327 | 0.61 |
| 2023 | 987 | #337 | 0.58 |
| 2022 | 824 | #388 | 0.47 |
| 2021 | 868 | #373 | 0.50 |
| 2020 | 675 | #440 | 0.39 |
| 2019 | 552 | #517 | 0.31 |
| 2018 | 407 | #641 | 0.22 |
| 2017 | 424 | #617 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 397 | #658 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 324 | #746 | 0.17 |
| 2014 | 269 | #840 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 228 | #912 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 208 | #968 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 182 | #1,043 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 154 | #1,175 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 146 | #1,227 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,525 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 74 | #1,914 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,151 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 47 | #2,431 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 45 | #2,454 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 42 | #2,473 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,562 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 38 | #2,520 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 41 | #2,334 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,611 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,201 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,896 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,690 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,159 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,137 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,812 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,123 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,351 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,026 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,074 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,897 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,354 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,644 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #4,993 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,162 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,402 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,794 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,108 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,550 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,054 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,942 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,022 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,622 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,710 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,719 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Briggs a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,476 Americans recorded as Briggs, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls and 921 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Briggs: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Briggs, and how old are they?
9,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,476 Americans ever recorded as Briggs. The median Briggs alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 4,104 people named Briggs (92 women and girls, 4,012 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,187 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 25 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 108 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,980 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Briggs born?
The states with the most babies named Briggs are Texas, Minnesota and Florida, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 88 | #403 | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 46 | #141 | 2.5× |
| Florida | 46 | #421 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 42 | #294 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 42 | #290 | 0.9× |
| Utah | 37 | #141 | 4.3× |
| Louisiana | 34 | #148 | 2.7× |
| Indiana | 33 | #247 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | #332 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 31 | #282 | 1.0× |
Where Briggs is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Briggs is most over-represented in South Dakota: since 1927 it was given 5.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Briggs with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Briggs
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 Briggs and names like it
- Compare Briggs and ZakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBriggs peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Briggs since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Briggs.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Briggs alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.