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Briar

Rank in 2024
#698
Born in 2024
386
Peak year
2023 · #671
Origin
English
Also recorded for girls:588 in 2024 (#523)

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 386 boys were named Briar, about 1 in every 4,444.
  • It peaked in 2023 with 405 babies, ranked #671.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1971.
  • 5,948 boys 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. 0.2
    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: 36 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 522 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,977 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,413 babies, 0.16 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.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyRising

    Bryer

    Rank
    #866
    Born '24
    277
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20242024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Bryar

    Rank
    #1,978
    Born '24
    79
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20192024