Bria
Bria was given to 199 girls in 2025, #1,163 among girls’ names; 16,870 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,600 Americans named Bria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 12 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bria mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bria is “a female given name.”
A 20th-century short form of Briana.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bria?
#1,163 among girls’ names, 2025
Bria fell from #650 in 2015 to #1,163 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.25 to 0.12 per 1,000.
1,698 babies in 1993, the peak
Bria peaked in 1993, when 1,698 girls were given it, #175 among girls’ names. The 199 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 199 | #1,163 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 256 | #1,002 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 296 | #900 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 377 | #760 | 0.23 |
| 2021 | 360 | #789 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 342 | #796 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 382 | #741 | 0.23 |
| 2018 | 357 | #762 | 0.21 |
| 2017 | 400 | #718 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 370 | #770 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 442 | #650 | 0.25 |
| 2014 | 590 | #522 | 0.33 |
| 2013 | 449 | #622 | 0.26 |
| 2012 | 439 | #647 | 0.25 |
| 2011 | 440 | #648 | 0.25 |
| 2010 | 354 | #776 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 318 | #869 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 298 | #919 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 309 | #895 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 303 | #876 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 296 | #853 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 254 | #948 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 283 | #853 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 356 | #702 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 352 | #704 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 370 | #659 | 0.20 |
| 1999 | 376 | #628 | 0.21 |
| 1998 | 475 | #532 | 0.27 |
| 1997 | 571 | #445 | 0.33 |
| 1996 | 678 | #390 | 0.39 |
| 1995 | 774 | #340 | 0.44 |
| 1994 | 1,102 | #253 | 0.62 |
| 1993 | 1,698 | #175 | 0.94 |
| 1992 | 801 | #334 | 0.43 |
| 1991 | 190 | #986 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 113 | #1,395 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,599 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,641 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 108 | #1,293 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 64 | #1,785 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,256 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 48 | #2,081 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,667 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 52 | #1,991 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 52 | #2,010 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,938 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,920 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,160 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,561 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,691 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,384 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,707 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,225 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bria has been given almost only to girls: 55 boys in 54 years of records.
Girls and boys named Bria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bria, and how old are they?
16,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 16,870 Americans ever recorded as Bria. The median Bria alive today is 24 years old; half are between 12 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 13,654 people named Bria (13,382 women and girls, 272 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,952 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 242 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,870 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,740 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,790 |
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 Bria born?
The states with the most babies named Bria are Texas, California and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,473 | 0.8× |
| California | 13 | #1,663 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,182 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #827 | 1.4× |
| New York | 10 | #1,336 | 0.9× |
| Minnesota | 9 | #551 | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #523 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,035 | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 7 | #613 | 2.5× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,160 | 0.9× |
Where Bria is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bria is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1966 it was given 2.7 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 Bria 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 22,273 babies since 1880, Bria is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 199 of their 283 babies (70%), again the 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 Bria
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 Bria and names like it
- Compare Bria and BrieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBria peaked in 1993.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bria since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Bria.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Bria alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.