Briggs

Briggs is a surname first, an English name that once identified someone who lived near a bridge. As a given name it is strikingly contemporary, arriving in American nurseries only in the last decade. The sound is sharp and confident, a single taut syllable that ends on a hiss of consonants. It sits in the bold company of Briggs, Knox, and Cruz, short boy names with hard edges and no softening vowels at the end. It currently sits in the low 300s. Briggs has a no-nonsense, slightly rugged charm, something that suggests blueprints and flannel.