Entry № 1638 · English origin

Briggs Briggs — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BRIGZ /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Dweller by the bridge (modern unisex surname)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "dweller by the bridge (modern unisex surname)".

Briggs is from the Old English brycg (bridge) + -s — a surname meaning dweller by the bridge.

Dweller by the bridge.

The name in its native script.

Briggs
Transliteration
Briggs
Pronunciation
/ brɪɡz /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Briggs stands.

Briggs does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Briggss before her.

Real people
Katharine Cook Briggs
Co-creator of MBTI.
1875 – 1968
Briggs Cunningham
3x America's Cup winner.
1907 – 2003
In fiction
Briggs
Modern American surname-naming.

Names connected to Briggs.

The number behind Briggs.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Briggs reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.