Briella
Briella was given to 845 girls in 2025, #362 among girls’ names; 15,051 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,000 Americans named Briella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Briella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Briella mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Briella is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
21st-century short form of Gabriella.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Briella?
#362 among girls’ names, 2025
Briella held from #362 in 2015 to #362 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.51 to 0.53 per 1,000.
1,259 babies in 2018, the peak
Briella peaked in 2018, when 1,259 girls were given it, #259 among girls’ names. The 845 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 845 | #362 | 0.53 |
| 2024 | 837 | #373 | 0.52 |
| 2023 | 760 | #404 | 0.47 |
| 2022 | 905 | #351 | 0.55 |
| 2021 | 1,003 | #326 | 0.61 |
| 2020 | 1,087 | #297 | 0.67 |
| 2019 | 1,064 | #306 | 0.63 |
| 2018 | 1,259 | #259 | 0.74 |
| 2017 | 1,141 | #286 | 0.66 |
| 2016 | 914 | #360 | 0.52 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 909 | #362 | 0.51 |
| 2014 | 972 | #342 | 0.54 |
| 2013 | 936 | #348 | 0.53 |
| 2012 | 828 | #377 | 0.47 |
| 2011 | 594 | #497 | 0.34 |
| 2010 | 298 | #889 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 178 | #1,343 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,762 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,087 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,784 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,832 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,568 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,845 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,512 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,846 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,646 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,229 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,608 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,129 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,820 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,872 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,757 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Briella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Briella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Briella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Briella, and how old are they?
15,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 15,051 Americans ever recorded as Briella. The median Briella alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 8,200 people named Briella (8,195 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,826 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 21 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,600 |
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 Briella born?
The states with the most babies named Briella are Texas, California and Florida, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 80 | #425 | 0.8× |
| California | 79 | #427 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 60 | #308 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 57 | #192 | 1.3× |
| New York | 48 | #351 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | #311 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 30 | #278 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 29 | #357 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 29 | #371 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 22 | #321 | 1.1× |
Where Briella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Briella is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1993 it was given 1.5 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 Briella 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 66,052 babies since 1880, Briella is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 845 of their 2,975 babies (28%), 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 Briella
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 Briella and names like it
- Compare Briella and BrielleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBriella peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Briella since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Briella: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Briella.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Briella alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.