Brianne
Brianne was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,266 among girls’ names; 20,504 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,900 Americans named Brianne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 30 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brianne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brianne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brianne is “a female given name from the Celtic languages.”
A feminine form of Brian, taken to regular use in the 1970s.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brianne?
#5,266 among girls’ names, 2025
Brianne fell from #2,386 in 2015 to #5,266 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 43.1 to 14.9 per million.
1,672 babies in 1979, the peak
Brianne peaked in 1979, when 1,672 babies were given it (1,663 girls, #168 among girls’ names). The 24 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,266 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,218 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,148 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,221 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,688 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,347 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,235 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,568 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,101 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,703 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77 | #2,386 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,055 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 72 | #2,488 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 107 | #1,876 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,792 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 130 | #1,640 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 154 | #1,488 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 181 | #1,350 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 187 | #1,304 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 219 | #1,130 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 245 | #994 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 262 | #923 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 276 | #870 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 265 | #864 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 336 | #724 | 0.19 |
| 2000 | 355 | #679 | 0.20 |
| 1999 | 447 | #560 | 0.25 |
| 1998 | 501 | #506 | 0.28 |
| 1997 | 533 | #471 | 0.31 |
| 1996 | 663 | #401 | 0.38 |
| 1995 | 651 | #402 | 0.37 |
| 1994 | 733 | #356 | 0.41 |
| 1993 | 703 | #362 | 0.39 |
| 1992 | 805 | #333 | 0.44 |
| 1991 | 869 | #311 | 0.46 |
| 1990 | 858 | #320 | 0.45 |
| 1989 | 943 | #284 | 0.51 |
| 1988 | 779 | #319 | 0.44 |
| 1987 | 763 | #317 | 0.44 |
| 1986 | 816 | #299 | 0.48 |
| 1985 | 720 | #331 | 0.42 |
| 1984 | 815 | #293 | 0.48 |
| 1983 | 726 | #319 | 0.43 |
| 1982 | 752 | #322 | 0.44 |
| 1981 | 698 | #337 | 0.42 |
| 1980 | 1,088 | #234 | 0.66 |
| 1979 | 1,663 | #168 | 1.0 |
| 1978 | 202 | #762 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 83 | #1,359 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 16 | #3,980 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,964 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,316 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,226 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,676 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,055 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,707 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,190 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,525 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,573 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,901 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,657 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,404 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,099 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,634 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,808 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brianne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brianne has been given almost only to girls: 31 boys in 67 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brianne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brianne, and how old are they?
19,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 20,504 Americans ever recorded as Brianne. The median Brianne alive today is 36 years old; half are between 30 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 18,375 people named Brianne (18,340 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,900 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 42 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,010 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 677 |
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 Brianne born?
The states with the most babies named Brianne are California, New York and Pennsylvania, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,464 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 1,554 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,153 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 1,083 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 934 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 934 | #2,989 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 927 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 823 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 701 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 644 | not ranked | 1.6× |
Where Brianne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brianne is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1947 it was given 1.9 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 Brianne 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 415,234 babies since 1880, Brianne is the third most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 1,955 babies (1.2%), the fifth 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 Brianne
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 Brianne and names like it
- Compare Brianne and BriannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBrianne peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brianne since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Brianne.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brianne alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.