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Brianna vs Briget

American parents have registered 265,237 Briannas since 1880, against 500 Brigets. Brianna is still ahead, with 1,372 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Brianna against Briget, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Brianna Briget

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 67 years in which either name was published, Brianna for 58 years and Briget for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Brianna Briget
Total US births 265,237500
Most in one year 12,89822
Babies in 2025 1,372under 5
Estimated living today 262,000470
Median age today 2448
Peak year 20001974
Best rank 15th girls3,110th girls
Rank in 2025 222ndunranked
First recorded 19631957
Girls / boys 264,799 / 438500 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Brigets alive today are over 48; half the Briannas are over 24. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Brianna Briget
Ireland 4296

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Brianna and Briget.