The name Briggs comes from a surname that was derived from Middle English ‘brigge’, which developed from Old English ‘brycg’ for ‘bridge’.
Briggs is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Briggs isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Briggs ranks 548. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Briggs. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Briggs.
The name Briggs comes from a surname that was derived from Middle English ‘brigge’, which developed from Old English ‘brycg’ for ‘bridge’.
As a given name,... Briggs is modern and in use since about 2010.
Briggs is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Briggs cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #361 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2021. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Briggs, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Briggs 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 Briggs was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
827 babies were named Briggs in 2022 - that's 1 in 197,342 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Briggs ranked 372 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 boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Briggs is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Briggs 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 Briggs, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Rocket
Igloo
Goat
Goat
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Briggs
Briggs
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
R
I
G
G
S
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
G
G
S
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. Briggs sounds like this:
