Brianna
Brianna was given to 1,372 girls in 2025, #222 among girls’ names; 265,237 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 261,000 Americans named Brianna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brianna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brianna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brianna is “a female given name, variant of Briana.”
/bɹiːˈænə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brianna?
#222 among girls’ names, 2025
Brianna fell from #82 in 2015 to #222 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.9 to 0.85 per 1,000.
12,898 babies in 2000, the peak
Brianna peaked in 2000, when 12,898 babies were given it (12,880 girls, #15 among girls’ names). The 1,372 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,372 | #222 | 0.85 |
| 2024 | 1,677 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,885 | #152 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 1,709 | #171 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 1,601 | #184 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 1,878 | #145 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 1,937 | #147 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 2,244 | #132 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 2,522 | #123 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 3,098 | #97 | 1.7 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3,475 | #82 | 1.9 |
| 2014 | 3,616 | #85 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 3,915 | #71 | 2.2 |
| 2012 | 4,646 | #51 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 5,183 | #45 | 2.9 |
| 2010 | 6,281 | #30 | 3.5 |
| 2009 | 7,357 | #24 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 8,278 | #23 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 8,855 | #22 | 4.6 |
| 2006 | 9,370 | #20 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 9,370 | #20 | 5.1 |
| 2004 | 9,804 | #17 | 5.3 |
| 2003 | 10,584 | #17 | 5.8 |
| 2002 | 11,524 | #17 | 6.4 |
| 2001 | 11,776 | #18 | 6.5 |
| 2000 | 12,880 | #15 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 12,419 | #14 | 7.0 |
| 1998 | 12,047 | #17 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 12,008 | #17 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 11,925 | #17 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 11,881 | #21 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 10,516 | #27 | 5.9 |
| 1993 | 8,775 | #32 | 4.9 |
| 1992 | 7,296 | #43 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 6,561 | #51 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 5,680 | #61 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 3,995 | #77 | 2.2 |
| 1988 | 2,963 | #96 | 1.7 |
| 1987 | 2,287 | #122 | 1.3 |
| 1986 | 1,815 | #154 | 1.1 |
| 1985 | 1,420 | #190 | 0.83 |
| 1984 | 1,355 | #197 | 0.80 |
| 1983 | 972 | #242 | 0.58 |
| 1982 | 891 | #273 | 0.53 |
| 1981 | 727 | #324 | 0.44 |
| 1980 | 708 | #341 | 0.43 |
| 1979 | 713 | #329 | 0.44 |
| 1978 | 299 | #574 | 0.20 |
| 1977 | 223 | #698 | 0.15 |
| 1976 | 138 | #933 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 78 | #1,366 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,962 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,178 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,280 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,910 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,400 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,210 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,468 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,863 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #3,982 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,525 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,656 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,920 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brianna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brianna has been given almost only to girls: 438 boys in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brianna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brianna, and how old are they?
261,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 265,237 Americans ever recorded as Brianna. The median Brianna alive today is 25 years old; half are between 19 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 221,271 people named Brianna (220,950 women and girls, 321 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 252,677 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 15 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,290 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 77,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 151,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 30,800 |
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 Brianna born?
The states with the most babies named Brianna are Texas, California and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 183 | #179 | 1.0× |
| California | 158 | #210 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 133 | #135 | 1.2× |
| New York | 82 | #205 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 62 | #126 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 55 | #197 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 48 | #220 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 48 | #170 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 42 | #127 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 40 | #263 | 0.9× |
Where Brianna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brianna is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1963 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 Brianna 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 420,155 babies since 1880, Brianna is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,372 of their 1,962 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 Brianna
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 Brianna and names like it
- Compare Brianna and BrianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrianna peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brianna since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Brianna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brianna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.