Briana
Briana was given to 431 girls in 2025, #661 among girls’ names; 97,326 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 95,600 Americans named Briana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Briana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Briana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Briana is “a female given name from Irish, masculine equivalent Brian, in regular use since the 1970s.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Briana?
#661 among girls’ names, 2025
Briana fell from #421 in 2015 to #661 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.43 to 0.27 per 1,000.
5,020 babies in 1994, the peak
Briana peaked in 1994, when 5,020 babies were given it (5,000 girls, #68 among girls’ names). The 431 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 431 | #661 | 0.27 |
| 2024 | 565 | #536 | 0.35 |
| 2023 | 655 | #470 | 0.41 |
| 2022 | 572 | #539 | 0.35 |
| 2021 | 469 | #631 | 0.29 |
| 2020 | 475 | #614 | 0.29 |
| 2019 | 547 | #559 | 0.33 |
| 2018 | 574 | #542 | 0.34 |
| 2017 | 679 | #463 | 0.39 |
| 2016 | 725 | #443 | 0.41 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 765 | #421 | 0.43 |
| 2014 | 766 | #419 | 0.43 |
| 2013 | 916 | #350 | 0.52 |
| 2012 | 1,063 | #299 | 0.60 |
| 2011 | 1,339 | #235 | 0.76 |
| 2010 | 1,692 | #183 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 2,075 | #151 | 1.1 |
| 2008 | 2,355 | #146 | 1.2 |
| 2007 | 2,826 | #120 | 1.5 |
| 2006 | 2,784 | #123 | 1.5 |
| 2005 | 2,542 | #126 | 1.4 |
| 2004 | 2,826 | #120 | 1.5 |
| 2003 | 3,059 | #114 | 1.7 |
| 2002 | 3,262 | #102 | 1.8 |
| 2001 | 3,236 | #101 | 1.8 |
| 2000 | 3,754 | #83 | 2.1 |
| 1999 | 3,839 | #82 | 2.2 |
| 1998 | 4,153 | #79 | 2.4 |
| 1997 | 4,476 | #72 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 4,735 | #72 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 4,612 | #74 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5,000 | #68 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 4,880 | #71 | 2.7 |
| 1992 | 4,350 | #79 | 2.4 |
| 1991 | 3,689 | #95 | 2.0 |
| 1990 | 3,067 | #109 | 1.6 |
| 1989 | 2,353 | #126 | 1.3 |
| 1988 | 1,802 | #158 | 1.0 |
| 1987 | 1,450 | #190 | 0.83 |
| 1986 | 1,106 | #235 | 0.64 |
| 1985 | 788 | #307 | 0.46 |
| 1984 | 816 | #292 | 0.48 |
| 1983 | 688 | #335 | 0.41 |
| 1982 | 704 | #341 | 0.42 |
| 1981 | 572 | #394 | 0.34 |
| 1980 | 602 | #381 | 0.36 |
| 1979 | 500 | #420 | 0.31 |
| 1978 | 377 | #504 | 0.25 |
| 1977 | 362 | #514 | 0.24 |
| 1976 | 200 | #736 | 0.14 |
| 1975 | 179 | #785 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 118 | #1,014 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 121 | #981 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 92 | #1,170 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 99 | #1,164 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 68 | #1,477 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 70 | #1,370 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,680 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,081 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,418 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,160 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,256 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,551 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,214 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,615 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,369 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,843 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,954 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,934 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,875 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,785 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,269 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,487 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #3,993 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Briana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Briana has been given almost only to girls: 206 boys in 74 years of records.
Girls and boys named Briana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Briana, and how old are they?
95,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 97,326 Americans ever recorded as Briana. The median Briana alive today is 28 years old; half are between 21 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 79,981 people named Briana (79,816 women and girls, 165 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 92,993 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 146 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,750 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 39,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 44,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,090 |
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 Briana born?
The states with the most babies named Briana are Texas, California and Florida, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 54 | #583 | 1.2× |
| California | 50 | #628 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 40 | #464 | 1.2× |
| New York | 20 | #797 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 19 | #522 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 19 | #409 | 1.2× |
| Maryland | 19 | #273 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 18 | #587 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #638 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #421 | 0.8× |
Where Briana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Briana is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1950 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 Briana 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 507,514 babies since 1880, Briana is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 431 of their 2,024 babies (21%), again the second 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 Briana
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 Briana and names like it
- Compare Briana and BriannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBriana peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Briana since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Briana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Briana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Briana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.