Briley
Briley is given to both girls and boys: 84 girls and 10 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,199 among girls’ names and #7,756 among boys’, #3,692 among all names counting both); 7,950 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,870 Americans named Briley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Briley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Briley mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Briley is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Uncertain. Possibly a variant of Brierley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Briley?
#2,199 among girls’ names, 2025
Briley fell from #919 in 2015 to #2,199 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.17 to 0.05 per 1,000.
562 babies in 2009, the peak
Briley peaked in 2009, when 562 babies were given it (485 girls, #622 among girls’ names). The 94 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #2,199 | 10 | #7,756 |
| 2024 | 103 | #1,929 | 7 | #10,056 |
| 2023 | 112 | #1,807 | 15 | #5,971 |
| 2022 | 146 | #1,491 | 6 | #11,070 |
| 2021 | 127 | #1,642 | 11 | #7,158 |
| 2020 | 145 | #1,478 | 11 | #7,102 |
| 2019 | 151 | #1,461 | 21 | #4,658 |
| 2018 | 195 | #1,210 | 11 | #7,192 |
| 2017 | 214 | #1,154 | 12 | #6,743 |
| 2016 | 270 | #985 | 18 | #5,157 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 300 | #919 | 31 | #3,521 |
| 2014 | 322 | #857 | 54 | #2,375 |
| 2013 | 356 | #765 | 47 | #2,565 |
| 2012 | 400 | #702 | 69 | #2,018 |
| 2011 | 435 | #654 | 76 | #1,850 |
| 2010 | 447 | #655 | 85 | #1,760 |
| 2009 | 485 | #622 | 77 | #1,873 |
| 2008 | 349 | #819 | 79 | #1,840 |
| 2007 | 315 | #884 | 71 | #1,979 |
| 2006 | 268 | #974 | 73 | #1,857 |
| 2005 | 219 | #1,087 | 90 | #1,554 |
| 2004 | 216 | #1,068 | 60 | #1,989 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,595 | 50 | #2,178 |
| 2002 | 146 | #1,330 | 63 | #1,816 |
| 2001 | 129 | #1,459 | 44 | #2,276 |
| 2000 | 119 | #1,524 | 40 | #2,378 |
| 1999 | 94 | #1,718 | 39 | #2,303 |
| 1998 | 72 | #2,046 | 30 | #2,712 |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,390 | 30 | #2,617 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,848 | 27 | #2,752 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,027 | 16 | #3,872 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,622 | 20 | #3,335 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,402 | 12 | #4,729 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,115 | 14 | #4,124 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,513 | 7 | #6,589 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,159 | 6 | #7,279 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,798 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,768 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,430 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,690 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,268 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,681 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Briley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,950 Americans recorded as Briley, 83% are girls and 17% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Briley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Briley, and how old are they?
7,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,950 Americans ever recorded as Briley. The median Briley alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 6,676 people named Briley (5,464 women and girls, 1,212 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,153 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 316 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,760 |
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 Briley born?
The states with the most babies named Briley are Tennessee, Texas and Kentucky, with 82% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 10 | #715 | 4.5× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,433 | 1.1× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #768 | 3.0× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,490 | 0.8× |
Where Briley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Briley is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1982 it was given 4.5 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 girls’ 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 Briley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 22,031 babies since 1880, Briley is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 94 of their 384 babies (24%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Briley
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1980-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Peyton | 140,602 | |
| Teagen | 1,581 | |
| Kerrington | 1,003 | |
| Loghan | 1,180 |
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 Briley and names like it
- Compare Briley and BryleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBriley peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Briley since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Briley: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Briley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Briley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.