Brigham
Brigham reached its high-water mark in 2011 at number 1,257, and has been recorded 3,371 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,886th. About 3,300 Brighams are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Brigham
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,371
- Estimated living today
- 3,300
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2011
- Best rank
- 1,257th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,886th
- First recorded
- 1916
How old the living Brighams are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,371 babies given the name since 1916, about 3,300 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 11 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Brighams
- Brigham Young (1801–1877)American religious leader
People named Brigham with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Brigham is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Brigham is most concentrated in Utah (63.7×), Idaho (23.0×), Arizona (11.2×), Kansas (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2011
The most popular boys’ names the year Brigham peaked:
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Brigham against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.