Briza
Briza was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,565 among girls’ names; 1,311 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,300 Americans named Briza and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Briza by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Briza?
#9,565 among girls’ names, 2025
Briza fell from #4,747 in 2015 to #9,565 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 6.2 per million.
114 babies in 2010, the peak
Briza peaked in 2010, when 114 girls were given it, #1,797 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,565 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,300 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,131 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,540 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,077 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,696 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,641 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,054 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,516 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,315 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,747 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,439 | 25.8 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,439 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,536 | 25.6 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,557 | 25.0 |
| 2010 | 114 | #1,797 | 64.1 |
| 2009 | 78 | #2,449 | 42.5 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,127 | 28.6 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,256 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,731 | 34.2 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,014 | 28.7 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,679 | 33.2 |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,006 | 27.4 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,201 | 41.7 |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,899 | 50.5 |
| 2000 | 101 | #1,727 | 55.6 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,327 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,843 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,535 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,741 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,114 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,214 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,139 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,047 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,597 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,365 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,889 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,446 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,273 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,240 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,222 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,264 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,236 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Briza a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Briza has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Briza: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Briza, and how old are they?
1,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,311 Americans ever recorded as Briza. The median Briza alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,031 people named Briza (1,026 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,233 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 99 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 930 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 250 |
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 Briza born?
The states with the most babies named Briza are California, Texas and Illinois, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 320 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 246 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 38 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Briza is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Briza is most over-represented in Texas: since 1979 it was given 1.9 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 Briza 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,401 babies since 1880, Briza is the most given (94% of them).
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 Briza
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 Briza and names like it
- Compare Briza and BrizzaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBriza peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Briza since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Briza.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Briza alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.