Brigham
Brigham was given to 83 boys in 2025, #1,888 among boys’ names; 3,371 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,270 Americans named Brigham and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brigham by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brigham?
#1,888 among boys’ names, 2025
Brigham fell from #1,590 in 2015 to #1,888 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 52.7 to 48.6 per million.
137 babies in 2011, the peak
Brigham peaked in 2011, when 137 boys were given it, #1,257 among boys’ names. The 83 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #1,888 | 48.6 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,193 | 38.3 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,151 | 39.2 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,272 | 36.1 |
| 2021 | 95 | #1,710 | 54.3 |
| 2020 | 94 | #1,680 | 54.5 |
| 2019 | 96 | #1,670 | 53.5 |
| 2018 | 105 | #1,584 | 57.8 |
| 2017 | 110 | #1,511 | 59.4 |
| 2016 | 120 | #1,443 | 63.2 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 101 | #1,590 | 52.7 |
| 2014 | 111 | #1,467 | 57.8 |
| 2013 | 130 | #1,321 | 68.7 |
| 2012 | 130 | #1,315 | 68.5 |
| 2011 | 137 | #1,257 | 72.1 |
| 2010 | 104 | #1,544 | 54.2 |
| 2009 | 95 | #1,654 | 47.9 |
| 2008 | 98 | #1,603 | 48.0 |
| 2007 | 97 | #1,608 | 46.7 |
| 2006 | 92 | #1,584 | 44.8 |
| 2005 | 80 | #1,673 | 40.1 |
| 2004 | 83 | #1,579 | 41.8 |
| 2003 | 71 | #1,717 | 35.9 |
| 2002 | 87 | #1,457 | 44.8 |
| 2001 | 88 | #1,412 | 45.3 |
| 2000 | 73 | #1,610 | 37.2 |
| 1999 | 55 | #1,798 | 28.6 |
| 1998 | 61 | #1,678 | 31.9 |
| 1997 | 63 | #1,599 | 33.4 |
| 1996 | 34 | #2,330 | 17.9 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,295 | 17.9 |
| 1994 | 33 | #2,349 | 17.1 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,150 | 10.7 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,114 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,754 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,061 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,479 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,436 | 12.5 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,734 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,609 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,433 | 11.4 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,104 | 13.9 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,502 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 30 | #1,857 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 32 | #1,772 | 17.9 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,734 | 18.5 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,319 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 22 | #2,141 | 13.4 |
| 1977 | 29 | #1,786 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,429 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,213 | 12.8 |
| 1974 | 20 | #2,134 | 12.7 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,518 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,439 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,576 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,911 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,429 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,329 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,625 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,572 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,272 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,316 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,106 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,688 | 4.8 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,121 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,656 | 2.8 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,225 | 4.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #3,973 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brigham a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brigham has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brigham: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brigham, and how old are they?
3,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,371 Americans ever recorded as Brigham. The median Brigham alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,737 people named Brigham (24 women and girls, 2,713 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,855 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 28 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 239 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 383 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,230 |
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 Brigham born?
The states with the most babies named Brigham are Utah, Texas and Missouri, with 71% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah and Missouri are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 10 | #442 | 18.2× |
| Texas | 10 | #1,667 | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 7 | #721 | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 6 | #865 | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #828 | 0.2× |
Where Brigham is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brigham is most over-represented in Utah: since 1916 it was given 18.2 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 Brigham 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 Brigham
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 Brigham and names like it
- Compare Brigham and DidierBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrigham peaked in 2011.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brigham since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Brigham.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brigham alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.