Breonna
Breonna was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,111 among girls’ names; 5,169 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,090 Americans named Breonna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Breonna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Breonna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Breonna is “a female given name of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Breonna?
#11,111 among girls’ names, 2025
Breonna fell from #5,005 in 2015 to #11,111 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 5.0 per million.
280 babies in 1994, the peak
Breonna peaked in 1994, when 280 girls were given it, #741 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,111 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,415 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,459 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,026 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,108 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,662 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,620 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,577 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,391 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,160 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,005 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,281 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,085 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,710 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 95 | #2,044 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 112 | #1,822 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 147 | #1,538 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 195 | #1,276 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 196 | #1,257 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 211 | #1,155 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 185 | #1,228 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 200 | #1,140 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 239 | #970 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 238 | #941 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 201 | #1,058 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 217 | #975 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 211 | #978 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 222 | #933 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 260 | #800 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 271 | #773 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 279 | #734 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 280 | #741 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 266 | #775 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 208 | #931 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 156 | #1,135 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 148 | #1,159 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,961 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,595 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 32 | #2,974 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,657 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,647 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,015 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,495 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,573 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #4,993 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,260 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,750 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,926 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Breonna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Breonna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Breonna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Breonna, and how old are they?
5,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,169 Americans ever recorded as Breonna. The median Breonna alive today is 26 years old; half are between 20 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 3,976 people named Breonna (3,975 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,009 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,960 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 310 |
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 Breonna born?
The states with the most babies named Breonna are Ohio, California and Michigan, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 302 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 287 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 283 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Florida | 255 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 233 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 231 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 201 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 176 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 174 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 167 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Breonna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Breonna is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1978 it was given 1.7 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 Breonna 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, Breonna is the fifth most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 205 babies (3.9%), the fourth 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 Breonna
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 Breonna and names like it
- Compare Breonna and BreannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBreonna peaked in 1994.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Breonna since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Breonna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Breonna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.