Brina
Brina was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,113 among girls’ names; 1,374 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Brina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brina is “a diminutive of the female given name Sabrina.”
Apheretic form of Sabrina.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brina?
#11,113 among girls’ names, 2025
Brina fell from #9,044 in 2015 to #11,113 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 5.0 per million.
60 babies in 1996, the peak
Brina peaked in 1996, when 60 girls were given it, #2,230 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,113 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,771 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,089 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,333 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,781 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,678 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,210 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,458 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,888 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,063 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,044 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,725 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,510 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,510 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,167 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,324 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,121 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,668 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,929 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,596 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,722 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,181 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,740 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,069 | 26.2 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,145 | 24.4 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,028 | 25.3 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,814 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,018 | 23.8 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,515 | 29.3 |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,230 | 34.2 |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,552 | 27.9 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,702 | 25.2 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,936 | 22.1 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,734 | 23.9 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,162 | 18.7 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,960 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,027 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,185 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,489 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,045 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,256 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,501 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,693 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,968 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,351 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,866 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,347 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,276 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,251 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,296 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,617 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,750 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,227 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,015 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,679 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,114 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,022 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,191 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,022 | 4.8 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,630 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,221 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,395 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brina has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brina, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,374 Americans ever recorded as Brina. The median Brina alive today is 29 years old; half are between 22 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,386 people named Brina (1,345 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,295 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 169 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 489 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 516 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 155 |
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 Brina born?
The states with the most babies named Brina are California, Texas and New York, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 109 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Brina 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 381,556 babies since 1880, Brina is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 1,867 babies (<1%), 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 Brina
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 Brina and names like it
- Compare Brina and BriannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBrina peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brina since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Brina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.