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Briar

Rank in 2024
#523
Born in 2024
588
Peak year
2021 · #516
Origin
English
Also recorded for boys:386 in 2024 (#698)

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 588 girls were named Briar, about 1 in every 2,744.
  • It peaked in 2021 with 597 babies, ranked #516.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1972.
  • 6,222 girls have been named Briar since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Briar per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. 0
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.3
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 57 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 191 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 836 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,138 babies, 0.25 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

As a surname Middle English brere (“briar”).

  • A unisex given name from English.
Origin
English
Say it
Not recorded

From Wiktionary’s entry for Briar, CC BY-SA 4.0.