Brien
Brien is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 764th, in 1963.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1963100 births
- Best rank
- #764in 1963
- Since 1925
- 3,581people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,581 boys have been named Brien in the United States since 1925, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 100 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1973, and the 1960s alone account for 24%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Brien | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | |
| 1930s | 18 | |
| 1940s | 123 | |
| 1950s | 477 | |
| 1960s | 847 | |
| 1970s | 689 | |
| 1980s | 601 | |
| 1990s | 461 | |
| 2000s | 245 | |
| 2010s | 92 | |
| 2020s | 18 |
In 1963, its biggest year
Brien was the 764th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1963 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1963.
Names that rose and fell with Brien
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Timmothypeak 1960
- Kevinpeak 1963
- Marcpeak 1970
- Greggorypeak 1963
- Jeffereypeak 1969
- Brittpeak 1960
- Tyronepeak 1970
- Timothypeak 1959
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.