Breanna
Breanna was given to 69 girls in 2025, #2,548 among girls’ names; 82,440 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 81,100 Americans named Breanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 22 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Breanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Breanna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Breanna is “a female given name from the Celtic languages, of American usage, variant of Brianna.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Breanna?
#2,548 among girls’ names, 2025
Breanna fell from #665 in 2015 to #2,548 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.24 to 0.04 per 1,000.
4,701 babies in 1996, the peak
Breanna peaked in 1996, when 4,701 girls were given it, #74 among girls’ names. The 69 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,548 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,827 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 119 | #1,726 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 126 | #1,670 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 144 | #1,485 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 196 | #1,183 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 209 | #1,150 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 249 | #1,035 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 285 | #928 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 363 | #783 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 429 | #665 | 0.24 |
| 2014 | 459 | #625 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 592 | #509 | 0.34 |
| 2012 | 778 | #398 | 0.44 |
| 2011 | 1,027 | #308 | 0.58 |
| 2010 | 1,286 | #250 | 0.72 |
| 2009 | 1,583 | #204 | 0.86 |
| 2008 | 1,978 | #168 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 2,497 | #138 | 1.3 |
| 2006 | 2,769 | #126 | 1.5 |
| 2005 | 2,640 | #124 | 1.4 |
| 2004 | 2,898 | #115 | 1.6 |
| 2003 | 3,272 | #105 | 1.8 |
| 2002 | 3,198 | #104 | 1.8 |
| 2001 | 3,368 | #94 | 1.9 |
| 2000 | 3,826 | #80 | 2.1 |
| 1999 | 4,341 | #74 | 2.4 |
| 1998 | 4,250 | #76 | 2.4 |
| 1997 | 4,444 | #74 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 4,701 | #74 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 4,527 | #76 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 4,101 | #85 | 2.3 |
| 1993 | 4,027 | #83 | 2.2 |
| 1992 | 3,451 | #94 | 1.9 |
| 1991 | 3,233 | #107 | 1.7 |
| 1990 | 2,951 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 1989 | 1,747 | #163 | 0.95 |
| 1988 | 1,243 | #210 | 0.70 |
| 1987 | 905 | #271 | 0.52 |
| 1986 | 704 | #341 | 0.41 |
| 1985 | 673 | #347 | 0.39 |
| 1984 | 628 | #366 | 0.37 |
| 1983 | 483 | #436 | 0.29 |
| 1982 | 379 | #522 | 0.22 |
| 1981 | 336 | #555 | 0.20 |
| 1980 | 290 | #628 | 0.17 |
| 1979 | 196 | #804 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 98 | #1,256 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,383 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,339 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,461 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,486 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,904 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,632 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,675 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,144 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,626 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Breanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Breanna has been given almost only to girls: 65 boys in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Breanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Breanna, and how old are they?
81,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 82,440 Americans ever recorded as Breanna. The median Breanna alive today is 28 years old; half are between 22 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 68,070 people named Breanna (67,995 women and girls, 75 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 80,705 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 | 743 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 33,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 43,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,330 |
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 Breanna born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,593 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,988 | 0.8× |
Where Breanna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Breanna is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1965 it was given 1.5 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 Breanna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 145,410 babies since 1880, Breanna is the most given (57% of them). In 2025 it was given to 69 of their 205 babies (34%), the second most given that year.
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 Breanna
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 Breanna and names like it
- Compare Breanna and BrennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBreanna peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Breanna since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Breanna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Breanna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.