Briseis
Briseis was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,436 among girls’ names; 1,376 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,370 Americans named Briseis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Briseis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Briseis?
#5,436 among girls’ names, 2025
Briseis fell from #2,625 in 2015 to #5,436 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 38.1 to 14.3 per million.
100 babies in 2006, the peak
Briseis peaked in 2006, when 100 girls were given it, #1,991 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,436 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,578 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,376 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,660 | 25.6 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,257 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,190 | 30.3 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,686 | 38.1 |
| 2018 | 76 | #2,388 | 44.7 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,908 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,767 | 35.0 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,625 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,377 | 43.1 |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,191 | 48.4 |
| 2012 | 74 | #2,478 | 42.0 |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,437 | 42.6 |
| 2010 | 72 | #2,547 | 40.5 |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,246 | 47.4 |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,299 | 45.0 |
| 2007 | 95 | #2,118 | 49.4 |
| 2006 | 100 | #1,991 | 52.6 |
| 2005 | 85 | #2,162 | 46.0 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,414 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Briseis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Briseis has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Briseis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Briseis, and how old are they?
1,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,376 Americans ever recorded as Briseis. The median Briseis alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 932 people named Briseis (928 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 672 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 694 |
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 Briseis born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,380 | 1.7× |
Where Briseis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Briseis is most over-represented in Texas: since 2000 it was given 1.7 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 Briseis 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 Briseis
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 Briseis and names like it
- Compare Briseis and LaniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBriseis peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Briseis since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Briseis.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Briseis alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.