Breana
Breana was given to 13 girls in 2025, #7,963 among girls’ names; 11,224 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,000 Americans named Breana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 24 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Breana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Breana?
#7,963 among girls’ names, 2025
Breana fell from #3,780 in 2015 to #7,963 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 22.4 to 8.1 per million.
698 babies in 1996, the peak
Breana peaked in 1996, when 698 girls were given it, #382 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,963 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,409 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,355 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,025 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,319 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,976 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,417 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,481 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,945 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,173 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,780 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,787 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,934 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,241 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,910 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 161 | #1,420 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 187 | #1,293 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 210 | #1,214 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 308 | #897 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 318 | #845 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 298 | #847 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 370 | #721 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 380 | #687 | 0.21 |
| 2002 | 412 | #619 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 408 | #614 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 480 | #542 | 0.26 |
| 1999 | 556 | #472 | 0.31 |
| 1998 | 560 | #460 | 0.32 |
| 1997 | 625 | #417 | 0.36 |
| 1996 | 698 | #382 | 0.40 |
| 1995 | 655 | #401 | 0.37 |
| 1994 | 678 | #378 | 0.38 |
| 1993 | 638 | #395 | 0.35 |
| 1992 | 568 | #445 | 0.31 |
| 1991 | 515 | #474 | 0.27 |
| 1990 | 432 | #546 | 0.23 |
| 1989 | 291 | #692 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 199 | #885 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 135 | #1,109 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 120 | #1,178 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 104 | #1,287 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,659 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,735 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,853 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,449 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,908 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,021 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,399 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,914 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,419 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,886 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,246 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,553 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Breana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Breana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Breana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Breana, and how old are they?
11,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 11,224 Americans ever recorded as Breana. The median Breana alive today is 29 years old; half are between 24 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 9,227 people named Breana (9,213 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,000 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 196 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 297 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Breana born?
The states with the most babies named Breana are California, Texas and Florida, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,983 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 896 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 522 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 425 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 415 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 414 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 388 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 385 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 323 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 277 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Breana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Breana is most over-represented in California: since 1973 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Breana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Breana?
Breana is a less common spelling of Breanna: SSA has recorded 11,224 Breana and 82,440 Breanna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 145,410 babies since 1880, Breana is the third most given (7.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 205 babies (6.3%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Breana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Breana and names like it
- Compare Breana and BreannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBreana peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Breana since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Breana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Breana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.