Briann
Briann was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,629 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Briann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Briann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Briann?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,694, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
90 babies in 1996, the peak
Briann peaked in 1996, when 90 girls were given it, #1,686 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #15,694 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,460 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,534 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,488 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,225 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,264 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,914 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,972 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,688 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,368 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 16 | #7,443 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,916 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,707 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,002 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,959 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,196 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,704 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,274 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,038 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,635 | 21.8 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,956 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,601 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,437 | 35.5 |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,513 | 33.0 |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,203 | 38.3 |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,570 | 30.0 |
| 1997 | 74 | #1,942 | 42.5 |
| 1996 | 90 | #1,686 | 51.3 |
| 1995 | 80 | #1,783 | 45.5 |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,139 | 35.3 |
| 1993 | 79 | #1,829 | 43.7 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,153 | 33.6 |
| 1991 | 74 | #1,892 | 39.5 |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,844 | 40.6 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,875 | 20.6 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,647 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,856 | 19.6 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,281 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,173 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,921 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,305 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,943 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 14 | #4,996 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 14 | #4,999 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,936 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,669 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Briann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,629 Americans recorded as Briann, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Briann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Briann, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,629 Americans ever recorded as Briann. The median Briann alive today is 29 years old; half are between 22 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,428 people named Briann (1,339 women and girls, 89 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,575 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 | 47 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 748 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 679 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 125 |
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 Briann born?
The states with the most babies named Briann are California, Texas and New York, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 114 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 91 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kentucky | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Briann 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 34,241 babies since 1880, Briann is the second most given (4.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 783 babies recorded by SSA was a Briann (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Briann
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 Briann and names like it
- Compare Briann and BrynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBriann peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Briann since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Briann.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Briann alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.