Briseida
Feminine · “daughter of Briseus”
Briseis is the woman Agamemnon takes from Achilles — and the whole Iliad follows from that quarrel.
How old is the name Briseida?
Briseida first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Briseida alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 2,700 people named Briseida are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Briseida most popular?
Briseida peaked in 2005, reaching #1162 nationally. Today it ranks #2485, 1,323 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Briseus to Briseida
The story of Briseida
The Iliad opens with Agamemnon taking Briseis from Achilles, and everything that follows — the withdrawal, the death of Patroclus, the killing of Hector — comes from it. The poem never gives her own name, only her father's. Medieval romance built Cressida from her. Briseida is Spanish and is in current American use.
Meaning
daughter of Briseus
From the Greek Briseis, a patronymic — the daughter of Briseus. Her personal name is not given in the Iliad; she is identified only by her father. Briseida is the Spanish form. The Greek formation is documented.
How the name formed
- Briseus
- Briseis
- Briseida
Related forms: Βρισηΐς · Briseida · Cressida
Pronouncing Briseida
bree-SAY-dah
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Greek Briseis is bri-SAY-is.
Nicknames for Briseida
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1979
- Most girls named
- 2005199 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1162reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- +42.0%71 in 2025, from 50
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Briseida in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Βρισηΐς in Greek — transliteration
- Briseida in Spanish — same name
- Cressida in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Georgia.
Briseidas among us
people named Briseida are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 22,638 born in 2025 was named Briseida
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Briseida
- #2485
- Briseida on the 2025 chart
- #854
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Briseida went to 71 girls in 2025, but Briseyda is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 106, which makes it the 854th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,631 places above the chart.
- Briseida71
- Briseyda35
About 1 girl in 15,163 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 22,638 for Briseida itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Stefania test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Briseida's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Stefania climbed just as high around 1917, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Stefania's path sketches the road Briseida is walking now.
Briseida sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Briseida is headed
Briseida should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Briseida beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Briseida in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the Iliad's whole plot follows from her seizure is a first-rate anchor.
- That the poem never gives her own name is a genuinely striking detail.
- Bri is available as a short form with real currency.
- The name is a patronymic rather than her own.
- Her story in the poem is one of captivity.
- It reads as specifically Spanish-speaking.
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Frequently asked
- How many Briseidas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,700 people named Briseida are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Briseida?
- Briseida is the most-used spelling in US records — 71 of the 106 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Briseyda.
- How popular is the name Briseida in 2025?
- Briseida ranks #2485 among US girl names in 2025, with 71 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Briseida?
- About 1 in every 22,638 US girls born in 2025 was named Briseida — 71 in all.
- Will my child share the name Briseida with classmates?
- Briseida will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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