Briley — #1959 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Briley

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,531 babies named Briley between 1982 and 2024, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Briley currently holds the #1959 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 485 babies received it in a single year. Briley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,321 additional births since 1990.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Briley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,090 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Briley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 805 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Briley in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Briley 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 6,531 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.