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Brie

#4,278 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Brianna

Brie has been given to 3,160 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #4,278 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 110 recorded.

Babies named Brie, 2025

1 in 100,000

Brie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brie: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Brianna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brie means

Brie is a short form of Brianna.

Origin, language, and formation

Brie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Brianna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,160 girls were recorded with the name Brie between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 110 in 1980; its best national rank was #1,197 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,505 in 2020 to #4,278 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,746 in 2015 to #4,278 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Brie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 48,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,278
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bries were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brie was born before 1997 — so the typical Brie is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,160
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (774).

Is Brie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+406
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,773
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,532
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.52×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.0%
Peak was 1980 (110)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,197
1980

Spellings of Brie

Brie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 34.9% against Brie's 0.20%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Brie is used

Across 2016–2025, Brie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 36,660 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Brie around the world

Where Brie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2019
    #765
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1975–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Brie

People whose public names include Brie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Brie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Brie. Linked forms have their own page here.

BriBreeBriaBrianaBrianneBrienneBríetBriene

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Brie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,278
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,773
Best rank ever
#1,197
1980
Peak year
1980
110 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,160
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Brie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

IrieArieBriarBrinaBrissaBrizaBrittaBriaBrisaBrindaBritnyErieBrittTorieBriahCorieBrigidBrielKorieBrileyKyrieBrinleeBrileeBrian

Names with a curve like Brie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Brie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JamilahArianneMishaJordanaKeturahAmberleeArianeAmberlyAyeshaKayceShiraTalitha

Sibling names for Brie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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