Briona
Briona was last recorded in 2018, when 9 babies were given it; 1,683 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,660 Americans named Briona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 23 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Briona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Briona?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,719, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
122 babies in 1993, the peak
Briona peaked in 1993, when 122 girls were given it, #1,351 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 9 | #10,719 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,954 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,522 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,246 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,141 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,185 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,884 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,275 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,958 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,565 | 13.6 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 24 | #5,788 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,391 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,919 | 31.0 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,127 | 27.1 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,747 | 32.1 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,205 | 42.7 |
| 2002 | 80 | #2,112 | 44.5 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,510 | 33.9 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,950 | 47.4 |
| 1999 | 73 | #2,096 | 41.2 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,885 | 45.8 |
| 1997 | 105 | #1,532 | 60.3 |
| 1996 | 90 | #1,688 | 51.3 |
| 1995 | 114 | #1,423 | 64.8 |
| 1994 | 119 | #1,379 | 66.6 |
| 1993 | 122 | #1,351 | 67.4 |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,739 | 46.1 |
| 1991 | 66 | #2,053 | 35.2 |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,288 | 29.0 |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,985 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,707 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,433 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,793 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,860 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,479 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,859 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,500 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,382 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Briona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Briona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Briona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Briona, and how old are they?
1,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,683 Americans ever recorded as Briona. The median Briona alive today is 29 years old; half are between 23 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,296 people named Briona (1,291 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,662 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 741 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 852 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 51 |
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 381,623 babies since 1880, Briona is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,859 babies recorded by SSA was a Briona (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 Briona
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 Briona and names like it
- Compare Briona and BriannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBriona peaked in 1993.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Briona since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Briona.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Briona alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.