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Brigham

#1,888 in 2025Boys' name

Bridge settlement

Brigham has been given to 3,371 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #1,888 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 137 recorded.

Babies named Brigham, 2025

1 in 39,900

Brigham over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brigham: meaning, origin, and history

Bridge settlement

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brigham means

Brigham means “bridge settlement”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,371 boys were recorded with the name Brigham between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 137 in 2011; its best national rank was #1,257 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,680 in 2020 to #1,888 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,590 in 2015 to #1,888 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 Brigham?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,900
83 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 20,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,888
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,687 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brigham 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 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,687 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brigham. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brighams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brigham was born before 2009 — so the typical Brigham is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,361
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (1,144).

Is Brigham 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
+305
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−208
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−298
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.6%
Peak was 2011 (137)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,257
2011

Where Brigham is used

Across 2016–2025, Brigham was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 1,042 boys, against 1 in 16,239 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

096 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 1,042
  2. 2Idaho1 in 2,778
  3. 3Arizona1 in 8,333
  4. 4Kansas1 in 10,000
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 12,500
  6. 6Iowa1 in 14,286
  7. 7Indiana1 in 14,286
  8. 8Illinois1 in 25,000

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.

Brigham around the world

Where Brigham 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
    2010–2017
    #2,569
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1979–1982
    #424
    in 1982

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Brigham

People whose public names include Brigham, 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.

Brigham by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,888
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 208
Best rank ever
#1,257
2011
Peak year
2011
137 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,371
Count in 2025
83

Names similar to Brigham

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

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Names with a curve like Brigham

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

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Sibling names for Brigham

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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