Bryana
Bryana was given to 31 girls in 2025, #4,469 among girls’ names; 6,222 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,130 Americans named Bryana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bryana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bryana?
#4,469 among girls’ names, 2025
Bryana fell from #2,783 in 2015 to #4,469 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.3 to 19.3 per million.
292 babies in 1997, the peak
Bryana peaked in 1997, when 292 girls were given it, #728 among girls’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,469 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,588 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,648 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,179 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,636 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,935 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,932 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,248 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,441 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,244 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,783 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 81 | #2,292 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,037 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 119 | #1,736 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 124 | #1,693 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 151 | #1,489 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 187 | #1,294 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 202 | #1,242 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 233 | #1,111 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 233 | #1,087 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 240 | #1,015 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 232 | #1,016 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 236 | #981 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 274 | #844 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 250 | #906 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 239 | #915 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 251 | #858 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 263 | #808 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 292 | #728 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 259 | #796 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 250 | #793 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 251 | #804 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 240 | #824 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 189 | #998 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 193 | #971 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 144 | #1,184 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 110 | #1,372 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 77 | #1,672 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,899 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,956 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 57 | #1,929 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,153 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,520 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,101 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,932 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,626 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,393 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,025 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,371 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bryana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bryana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bryana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bryana, and how old are they?
6,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,222 Americans ever recorded as Bryana. The median Bryana alive today is 25 years old; half are between 19 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 4,808 people named Bryana (4,786 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,929 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 42 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,980 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,490 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 622 |
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 Bryana born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 8 | #1,571 | 1.2× |
| New York | 5 | #2,147 | 1.1× |
Where Bryana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bryana is most over-represented in California: since 1972 it was given 1.2 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 Bryana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Bryana?
Bryana is a less common spelling of Brianna: SSA has recorded 6,222 Bryana and 265,237 Brianna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 397,363 babies since 1880, Bryana is the fourth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 1,977 babies (1.6%), 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 Bryana
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 Bryana and names like it
- Compare Bryana and BriannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBryana peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bryana since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Bryana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bryana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.