Briston
Briston was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,264 among boys’ names; 440 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Briston by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Briston?
#7,264 among boys’ names, 2025
Briston fell from #5,773 in 2015 to #7,264 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 6.4 per million.
24 babies in 2010, the peak
Briston peaked in 2010, when 24 boys were given it, #4,119 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,264 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,943 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,040 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,982 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,762 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,594 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,306 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,975 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,560 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,206 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,773 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,407 | 11.5 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,286 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,506 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,242 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,119 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,588 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,801 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,461 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,496 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,703 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,848 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,094 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,765 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,065 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,913 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,700 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,672 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,473 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,567 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,030 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,743 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,129 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,891 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,041 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,824 | 3.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,639 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,029 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,484 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Briston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Briston has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Briston: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Briston, and how old are they?
An estimated 432 Americans named Briston and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 415 people named Briston (45 women and girls, 370 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 374 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,740 babies since 1880, Briston is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 28 babies (39%), 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 Briston
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 Briston and names like it
- Compare Briston and BrystonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBriston peaked in 2010.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Briston.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Briston alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.