How popular is the baby name Briar in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, check out all the blog posts that mention the name Briar.
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Nature is waking up again! Let’s celebrate by checking out which nature names are the most popular for baby girls right now. Ironically the top 50 list below includes all the seasons except for “Spring,” but it does feature lots of springtime things: flowers, birds, trees…
For this list I stuck to names that are also correctly spelled English words. This means that I skipped names that are non-English words (like Stella and Luna) and alternative spellings of words (like Brooke and Briar). I should also mention that several of the above (including Rowan, Robin, and Clementine) do have more than one etymology to choose from.
Oregon’s Open Data website includes several tables of baby name data from 2012.
The most interesting thing about this data? It goes all the way down to names given to just three babies per year. (All the SSA baby name lists, on the other hand, have a five-baby cutoff.)
So here are some of the baby names that were bestowed in Oregon just three or four times in 2012:
Girl Names
Boy Names
Amberly Andromeda Arianny Damaris Diem Ellingon Fern Gaia Io Isela Jubilee Kahlan Linnea Lois Lumen Magali Rue Sahasra Sanvi Sayuri Seven Sinai Siri Sonora Sparrow Timber Twyla Van Yara
Achilles Alvin Atlas Atreyu Bear Briar Calder Carver Clive Dutch Forest Huck Hyrum Isley Kainoa Kincaid Koa Larry Loki Montgomery Riot Rogue Summit Tavish Tiberius Tor Trapper Van Zephyr
The name Diem has been in the SSA data since the ’80s, but a lot of the recent usage was probably inspired by Danielle Michelle “Diem” Brown, who appeared on various MTV reality TV shows from 2006 to 2015. (She passed away in 2014 from ovarian cancer.) In her case, “Diem” was a nickname based on the initials “D.M.,” making this yet another name that can be spelled with the names of letters.
Katrina: In May of 2015, a baby girl born to a survivor of the Sydney siege was named Emily Katrina, middle name in honor of Katrina Dawson, one of the victims.
Briar: In May of 2016, a baby girl born to a couple who had fled from the Fort McMurray wildfire two weeks earlier was named Briar Adele, Briar in honor of CBC broadcaster Briar Stewart, who had reported on the wildfire from the front lines.
Carmi Hallel: In July of 2016, a baby girl born to a family in Israel was named Carmi Hallel, middle name in honor of Hallel Ariel, the 13-year-old girl who had been murdered several days earlier. (Hallel means “praise” in Hebrew.)
Which girl names increased and decreased the most in popularity from 2014 to 2015?
Here are two ways to look at it. The SSA’s way looks at ranking differences and covers the top 1,000 girl names (roughly). My way looks at raw number differences and takes all girl names on the SSA’s list into account.
Hazel, Taya and Adeline were influenced by films: Hazel by The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Taya by American Sniper (2014), and Adaline by The Age of Adaline (2015).
Meilani and Aitana were boosted by celebrity babies. Meilani is the daughter of Jenni “JWoww” Farley, originally of “Jersey Shore” fame, and Aitana is the daughter of Mexican actors Alessandra Rosaldo and Eugenio Derbez. (Both babies were born in 2014.)
Adley was popularized by county singer Adley Stump.
Isis was brought down by the association with the Jihadist militant group, and nearly every single variant of Annabelle was negatively affected by the horror film Annabelle, released in late 2014.
In 2014, the big winners were Olivia and Aranza, and the big losers were Sophia and Miley.
According to the Oklahoma Department of Health, the most popular baby names in Oklahoma in 2011 were these:
Boy Names
Girl Names
Unisex Names
1. William 2. Mason 3. Jacob 4. Elijah 5. Noah 6. Ethan 7. Aiden 8. Michael 9. James 10. Wyatt 11. Gabriel 12. Jackson 13. Jayden 14. Alexander 15. Hunter 16. Landon 17. Bentley 18. David 19. Eli 20. Joshua
1. Emma 2. Sophia 3. Isabella 4. Olivia 5. Addison 6. Ava 7. Emily 8. Abigail 9. Brooklyn 10. Madison 11. Chloe 12. Avery 13. Elizabeth 14. Lillian 15. Alexis 16. Lily 17. Zoey 18. Harper 19. Natalie 20. Ella
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a U.S. state put out a list of top gender-neutral names before. Interesting. Wish I knew what guideline/formula they were using to classify certain names as gender-neutral instead of gendered, though.
I also think it’s interesting that Zoey made the top 20, but Zoe didn’t. (Unless “Zoey” is a typo in my source article.)
I posted about bizarre baby names in Oklahoma in early 2011 — remember 12-Gage? — but the state hasn’t yet put out another of those nifty baby name PDFs, so I can’t dig any deeper into the 2011 names than this. All I know is that “Oklahoma children were bestowed with 7,517 unique girls’ names and 5,255 unique boys’ names in 2011.”
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