Given name & surname
Briscoe
“birch”·“wood”
Briscoe is a surname from Old Norse.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Briscoe is built from elements meaning “birch” and “wood”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Briscoe through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 84
- 84 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 11 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 144 as a first name in 2020; 13,489 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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