Briony
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Briony is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Australia than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 45K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 76Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Australia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Briony, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Briony counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 5 | Briony | 145 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 4 | Briony | 162 |
| US United States | 306 | 1 in 1.1M | 300 | Briony | 166 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | Briony | 27 |
| ES Spain | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 564K | — | Briony | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Briony | 48 |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Briony is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of brionie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Briony Pennb. 1960CACanadian environmental activist
- Briony Coleb. 1983AUAustralian diver and swimmer
- Briony Stewartb. 1984AUauthor and illustrator
- Briony May Smithb. 1992GBBritish illustrator and children's writer
- Briony WilliamsAUAustralian actress
- Briony D. PulfordGBresearcher
- Briony A. K. McDonaghGBhistorical geographer
- Briony MonroeGBScottish actress
- Briony Anderson(born 1982)
- Briony MerrittCACanadian writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 300 | #29,086 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1992 | 25 | #196 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1993 | 20 | #212 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1996 | 18 | #219 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2000 | 17 | #222 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1995 | 17 | #227 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1977 | 17 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1977 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 16 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1998 | 16 | #234 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1991 | 15 | #259 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 14 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Briony?
- In the etymology graph, Bryony is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Briony a male or female name?
- Briony is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Briony have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Briony in Australia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled briony.
- How common is the name Briony?
- In the United States, the national register counted 306 people named Briony in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Briony?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brionyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Briony”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.