Brienne
Brienne was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,131 among girls’ names; 1,509 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,470 Americans named Brienne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 20 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brienne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brienne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brienne is “a female given name, in occasional modern use.”
From French Brienne.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brienne?
#12,131 among girls’ names, 2025
Brienne fell from #4,507 in 2015 to #12,131 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 4.4 per million.
122 babies in 1979, the peak
Brienne peaked in 1979, when 122 girls were given it, #1,113 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,131 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,539 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,311 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,816 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,786 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,034 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,268 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,247 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,158 | 20.3 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,756 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,507 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,759 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,184 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,917 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,273 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,421 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,350 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,053 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,170 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,831 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,556 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,398 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,106 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,701 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,015 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,263 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,211 | 15.2 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,650 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,455 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,638 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,247 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,536 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 26 | #3,998 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,702 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,068 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,736 | 22.1 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,105 | 18.4 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,041 | 18.5 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,665 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,954 | 32.6 |
| 1985 | 57 | #1,928 | 33.1 |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,052 | 29.1 |
| 1983 | 77 | #1,487 | 46.1 |
| 1982 | 62 | #1,770 | 36.6 |
| 1981 | 83 | #1,458 | 49.8 |
| 1980 | 103 | #1,260 | 62.0 |
| 1979 | 122 | #1,113 | 76.0 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,806 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,621 | 13.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brienne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brienne has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 49 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brienne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brienne, and how old are they?
1,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,509 Americans ever recorded as Brienne. The median Brienne alive today is 37 years old; half are between 20 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 1,339 people named Brienne (1,329 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,397 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 266 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 651 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 278 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 275 |
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 300,804 babies since 1880, Brienne is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 1,452 babies (<1%), the fourth 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 Brienne
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 Brienne and names like it
- Compare Brienne and BriannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBrienne peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brienne since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Brienne.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brienne alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.