Briya
Briya was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,138 among girls’ names; 297 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Briya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Briya?
#12,138 among girls’ names, 2025
Briya fell from #12,030 in 2015 to #12,138 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 4.4 per million.
21 babies in 2014, the peak
Briya peaked in 2014, when 21 girls were given it, #6,023 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,138 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,395 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,751 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,157 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,677 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,409 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,214 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,724 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,957 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,988 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,030 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,023 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,820 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,429 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,862 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,287 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,821 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,758 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,241 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,585 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,930 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,834 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,141 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,301 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,245 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,419 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,310 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,378 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,908 | 7.5 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,879 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,733 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,818 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Briya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Briya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Briya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Briya, and how old are they?
An estimated 294 Americans named Briya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 256 people named Briya (253 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 247 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Briya?
Briya is a less common spelling of Bria: SSA has recorded 297 Briya and 16,870 Bria since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,273 babies since 1880, Briya is the sixth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 283 babies (2.5%), again the sixth 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 Briya
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 Briya and names like it
- Compare Briya and BriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBriya peaked in 2014.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Briya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Briya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.