Briar

The name Briar is a girl's name of English origin meaning "a thorny patch". Fairy-tale memories of Sleeping Beauty inspire some parents—such as Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen—to call their daughters Briar Rose. But Briar plus a different middle name might work even better. It's one of the newly popular nature-word names, charting in the US for the first time in 2015. It could make for an interesting choice to honor a Brian.