Briseis
#5,436 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Briseis has been given to 1,376 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #5,436 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 100 recorded.
Babies named Briseis, 2025
1 in 144,000
Briseis over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Briseis?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 144,000
- 23 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 69,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,436
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 99,910 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Briseis sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Briseis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Briseiss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Briseis was born before 2013 — so the typical Briseis is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 51.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,376
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 51.6% of all recorded uses (710).
Is Briseis 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
- −858
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,246
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,811
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.34×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 23.0%
- Peak was 2006 (100)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.8% average annual change
Spellings of Briseis
Briseis is not the most common spelling — Briseida is, with 58.0% against Briseis's 29.5%.
Where Briseis is used
Across 1910–2025, Briseis was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 85,044 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
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. Briseis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Briseis around the world
Where Briseis 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 & Wales2011–2022#5,670in 2022
- France2005–2025#4,211in 2025
- Canada2005–2010#2,833in 2010
- South Australia2008–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Briseis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Briseis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Briseis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.