Briar a boy or girl name?

[Anonymous]

We love the name Briar but unsure it's a boy or girls name?

[Anonymous]

Briar is not a name.

Briar is a type of overgrown, thorny bush that vermin live in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Briar is not a name.

Briar is a type of overgrown, thorny bush that vermin live in.

Shut up. It is now being used as a name. It's unisex.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Briar is not a name.

Briar is a type of overgrown, thorny bush that vermin live in.

That was my first thought.

[Anonymous]

Oh please Brer Fox, whatever you do, please don't throw me into the briar patch

Still not a name.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Briar is not a name.

Briar is a type of overgrown, thorny bush that vermin live in.

Shut up. It is now being used as a name. It's unisex.

[Anonymous]

Briar isn't a name.

[Anonymous]

Sleeping Beauty is Briar Rose.

Please don't name your kid Briar. That's really terrible.

[Anonymous]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Briar

Briar is also apparently a racist slur for white people.

[Anonymous]

Neither.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a name for a rabbit.

[Anonymous]

Aside from relating it to a bear, fox, or rabbit, I also thought of Friar Tuck in Robin Hood.
This thread makes me want to ride Splash Mountain.

I would not name my child Briar because it is a thorny weed that is snarly and painful.

[Anonymous]

I do calligraphy and read Briar as Brian. After all, it is an incomplete pen stroke away from Brian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a name for a rabbit.

That's a great bunny name. But a girl bunny.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, OP. I think of Brer Rabbit and Sweet Briar College.

I've never heard of it as a name for a boy or a girl. I'm sure it's been used by someone somewhere, but I would consider it similar to naming my kid Fence or Garden.

[Anonymous]

It is a girl's name, one step above Rue, as far as garden-type names go. Don't use it.