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How popular is “Briar” in the USA?

Number of people named “Briar” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Briar” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Briar” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Briar” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Briar” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Briar” by birth year

This chart shows how “Briar” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1973 11 0.000003646 6 5 9%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1975 13 0.000004305 5 8 -23%
1976 14 0.000004614 8 6 14%
1977 13 0.000004093 6 7 -8%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 100%
1980 12 0.000003484 7 5 17%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 100%
1982 13 0.000003706 8 5 23%
1984 12 0.00000344 12 100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 100%
1990 50 0.00001265 7 43 -72%
1991 107 0.000027469 15 92 -72%
1992 78 0.000020306 19 59 -51%
1993 77 0.000020423 23 54 -40%
1994 103 0.000027706 22 81 -57%
1995 120 0.000032768 15 105 -75%
1996 105 0.000028789 22 83 -58%
1997 101 0.000027856 29 72 -43%
1998 90 0.000024468 31 59 -31%
1999 97 0.00002626 29 68 -40%
2000 136 0.00003598 35 101 -49%
2001 145 0.000038735 38 107 -48%
2002 135 0.000036113 34 101 -50%
2003 175 0.000046025 43 132 -51%
2004 162 0.000042398 37 125 -54%
2005 147 0.000038233 30 117 -59%
2006 185 0.000046762 53 132 -43%
2007 212 0.000053031 73 139 -31%
2008 203 0.000051645 51 152 -50%
2009 210 0.000054971 72 138 -31%
2010 243 0.000065751 70 173 -42%
2011 275 0.000075182 103 172 -25%
2012 297 0.000081206 108 189 -27%
2013 269 0.000073786 108 161 -20%
2014 361 0.0000974 158 203 -12%
2015 539 0.00014564 336 203 25%
2016 557 0.000151825 355 202 27%
2017 641 0.000179241 397 244 24%
2018 700 0.000199096 422 278 21%
2019 831 0.000239417 529 302 27%
2020 837 0.000250556 519 318 24%
2021 961 0.000283652 597 364 24%
2022 926 0.000273711 579 347 25%
2023 955 0.000288415 550 405 15%
2024 974 0.000292624 588 386 21%

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