Brienna
Brienna was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 1,694 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Brienna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brienna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brienna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,375, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
78 babies in 1992, the peak
Brienna peaked in 1992, when 78 girls were given it, #1,827 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #12,375 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,468 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,700 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,268 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,762 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,295 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,332 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,547 | 17.5 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,493 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,047 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 27 | #5,033 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,309 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,701 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,130 | 29.8 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,749 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,435 | 25.4 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,255 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,228 | 26.8 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,216 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,339 | 24.5 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,842 | 29.6 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,602 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,713 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,592 | 31.4 |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,204 | 38.3 |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,066 | 40.2 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,982 | 41.4 |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,105 | 37.1 |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,187 | 34.7 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,902 | 41.4 |
| 1993 | 60 | #2,191 | 33.2 |
| 1992 | 78 | #1,827 | 42.3 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,517 | 26.1 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,643 | 23.2 |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,658 | 22.8 |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,151 | 29.8 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,107 | 17.3 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,207 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,648 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,239 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,306 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,737 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,873 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,954 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,871 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,021 | 5.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,909 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brienna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brienna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brienna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brienna, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,694 Americans ever recorded as Brienna. The median Brienna alive today is 27 years old; half are between 19 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,556 people named Brienna (1,552 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,639 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 36 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 653 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 788 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 189 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 415,627 babies since 1880, Brienna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,931 babies recorded by SSA was a Brienna (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 Brienna
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 Brienna and names like it
- Compare Brienna and BriannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBrienna peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brienna since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Brienna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brienna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.