# Briggs (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/briggs/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 9,476 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 9,377 / 99 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | 14,943 |
| 2015 | 10 | 10,277 |
| 2017 | 5 | 16,310 |
| 2018 | 8 | 11,593 |
| 2019 | 5 | 15,961 |
| 2020 | 9 | 10,412 |
| 2021 | 15 | 7,327 |
| 2022 | 9 | 10,540 |
| 2023 | 11 | 9,093 |
| 2024 | 12 | 8,545 |
| 2025 | 9 | 10,243 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 182 | 1,043 |
| 2012 | 208 | 968 |
| 2013 | 228 | 912 |
| 2014 | 269 | 840 |
| 2015 | 324 | 746 |
| 2016 | 397 | 658 |
| 2017 | 424 | 617 |
| 2018 | 407 | 641 |
| 2019 | 552 | 517 |
| 2020 | 675 | 440 |
| 2021 | 868 | 373 |
| 2022 | 824 | 388 |
| 2023 | 987 | 337 |
| 2024 | 1,059 | 327 |
| 2025 | 921 | 356 |

## People named Briggs

- Briggs Cunningham, American racing driver (1907–2003)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.