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Briggs

#356 in 2025Boys' name

Bridge

Briggs has been given to 9,476 babies in the U.S. since 1927. In 2025 it ranked #356 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 1,059 recorded.

Babies named Briggs, 2025

1 in 3,600

Briggs over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Briggs: meaning, origin, and history

Bridge

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Briggs means

Briggs means “bridge”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,377 boys were recorded with the name Briggs between 1927 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,059 in 2024; its best national rank was #327 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #440 in 2020 to #356 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #746 in 2015 to #356 in 2025.

In the United States, 99 girls were recorded with the name Briggs between 2013 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2021; its best national rank was #7,322 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,407 in 2020 to #10,239 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,272 in 2015 to #10,239 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.

How common is Briggs?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 3,600
921 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 1,850
0.05% of boys
Rank, 2025
#356
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,496 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Briggs sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 1003%
School of 50013%

Put another way: gather 2,496 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Briggs. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Briggss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Briggs was born before 2020 — so the typical Briggs is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
56.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,351
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 56.9% of all recorded uses (5,334).

Is Briggs 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
−29
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+84
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+390
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.84×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.0%
Peak was 2024 (1,059)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#327
2024

Spellings of Briggs

Briggs is the most-used spelling, taking 75.8% of the 12,363 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Briggs75.8%9,377
  • Riggs24.2%2,986

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 Briggs is used

Across 2016–2025, Briggs was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 257 boys, against 1 in 2,132 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

2389 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 257
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 270
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 465
  4. 4Iowa1 in 532
  5. 5Montana1 in 538
  6. 6Utah1 in 543
  7. 7Idaho1 in 667
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 671

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Geographically, Briggs is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 97% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Briggs around the world

Where Briggs 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.

  • Canada
    2010–2024
    #607
    in 2024

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Briggs

People whose public names include Briggs, 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.

Briggs by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#356
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 84
Best rank ever
#327
2024
Peak year
2024
1,059 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,377
Count in 2025
921

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,239
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 168
Best rank ever
#7,322
2021
Peak year
2021
15 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
99
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Briggs

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

BridgerBriarBrittonBriceBrixtonBrienBrighamBrileyBrionBrisonBricenBrightonBrittBritonBrightRiggsBritainBrierBriantBristolBrickBristonBrixonBridge

Names with a curve like Briggs

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

DarielCairoAresBaylorKohenColsonZyaireBodieCallanApolloJazielWilder

Sibling names for Briggs

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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