The name Briar comes from the English word for a grouping of thorny plants. It is a natural sounding name, that is in use only since the 2010s.
Briar is a first name for all genders. The name is given about equally often as boys and girls name.
The name Briar is not currently one of the fashionable names trending in the top 10 rankings, but it is still popular and common. Recently, it has consistently ranked among the top 1,000 most popular first names in the United States. It is currently #967 in the SmartGenius ranking.
The name Briar comes from the English word for a grouping of thorny plants. It is a natural sounding name, that is in use only since the 2010s.
The word briar.. goes back to Old English 'brēr' for 'briar' or 'bramble'.
Briar is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Briar cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #683 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2021. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Briar, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their newborn child. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Briar seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Briar was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
924 babies were named Briar in 2022 - that's 1 in 357,794 newborns. With this number, the first name Briar ranked 705 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 3.7% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With five letters, the name Briar is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.7%, B as the first letter in given names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Briar and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Briar, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Rocket
Igloo
Apple
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Briar
Briar
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
R
I
A
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
R
I
A
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Briar sounds like this:
