Brieann — girls' name
718 babies named Brieann in U.S. Social Security records since 1979, with the highest year being 1999. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Brieann was born in this single decade.
33 babies were named Brieann in 1999 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Brieann
The Social Security Administration has registered 718 babies named Brieann between 1979 and 2016, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Brieann currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 33 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Brieann performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 268 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Brieann shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Indiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Brieann in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Brieann in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 718 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Brieann at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Brieann popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1979
- Peak year (1999)
- 33
- Annual births at peak — across 38 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
718 total births across 38 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1999 with 33 births in a single year.
Brieann by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 268 births that decade — 37% of Brieann's all-time total
Brieann decade highlights
- Peak decade 268 births
- Runner-up 233 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Brieann's strongest decade
268 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Brieann by state
Where Brieann concentrates geographically — total births since 1979
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 32 | 4.5% |
| #2 | New York | | 6 | 0.8% |
| #3 | Indiana | | 5 | 0.7% |
32 of 718 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 4.5% of nationwide
- New York 0.8% of nationwide
- Indiana 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 4.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1979–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.