Breauna — girls' name
1,462 babies named Breauna in U.S. Social Security records since 1984, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
52% of everyone ever named Breauna was born in this single decade.
92 babies were named Breauna in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Breauna
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,462 babies named Breauna between 1984 and 2016, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Breauna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 92 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Breauna performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 758 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Breauna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 116 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Breauna in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Breauna in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,462 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Breauna at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Breauna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1984
- Peak year (1997)
- 92
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
1,462 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 92 births in a single year.
Breauna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 758 births that decade — 52% of Breauna's all-time total
Breauna decade highlights
- Peak decade 758 births
- Runner-up 565 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Breauna's strongest decade
758 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 52% of all-time use.
Breauna by state
Where Breauna concentrates geographically — total births since 1984
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 116 | 7.9% |
| #2 | Texas | | 105 | 7.2% |
| #3 | Ohio | | 75 | 5.1% |
| #4 | Florida | | 27 | 1.8% |
| #5 | Missouri | | 25 | 1.7% |
| #6 | Illinois | | 22 | 1.5% |
| #7 | Alabama | | 13 | 0.9% |
| #8 | Georgia | | 11 | 0.8% |
116 of 1,462 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 14 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 7.9% of nationwide
- Texas 7.2% of nationwide
- Ohio 5.1% of nationwide
- Florida 1.8% of nationwide
- Missouri 1.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 14 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 7.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
Breauna appears in 14 states. Explore state details →
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1984–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.