Brigham — #2187 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Brigham

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,288 babies named Brigham between 1916 and 2024, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brigham currently holds the #2187 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 137 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brigham performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,144 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Brigham shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 818 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Arizona and Idaho. In total, SSA state-level files list Brigham in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brigham 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 3,288 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.