Bryanna
Bryanna was given to 79 girls in 2025, #2,302 among girls’ names; 19,643 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,400 Americans named Bryanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bryanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bryanna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bryanna is “a female given name from the Celtic languages, of American usage, variant of Brianna.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bryanna?
#2,302 among girls’ names, 2025
Bryanna fell from #784 in 2015 to #2,302 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.20 to 0.05 per 1,000.
1,027 babies in 1998, the peak
Bryanna peaked in 1998, when 1,027 girls were given it, #292 among girls’ names. The 79 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,302 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 118 | #1,722 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 99 | #1,987 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,794 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 131 | #1,604 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 153 | #1,424 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 157 | #1,423 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 141 | #1,543 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 188 | #1,259 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 244 | #1,069 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 360 | #784 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 444 | #642 | 0.25 |
| 2013 | 399 | #703 | 0.23 |
| 2012 | 392 | #713 | 0.22 |
| 2011 | 416 | #677 | 0.24 |
| 2010 | 462 | #638 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 493 | #612 | 0.27 |
| 2008 | 599 | #515 | 0.32 |
| 2007 | 715 | #450 | 0.37 |
| 2006 | 748 | #422 | 0.39 |
| 2005 | 680 | #447 | 0.37 |
| 2004 | 790 | #392 | 0.43 |
| 2003 | 972 | #319 | 0.53 |
| 2002 | 979 | #311 | 0.54 |
| 2001 | 982 | #318 | 0.55 |
| 2000 | 943 | #332 | 0.52 |
| 1999 | 1,011 | #304 | 0.57 |
| 1998 | 1,027 | #292 | 0.58 |
| 1997 | 885 | #325 | 0.51 |
| 1996 | 750 | #363 | 0.43 |
| 1995 | 700 | #375 | 0.40 |
| 1994 | 646 | #392 | 0.36 |
| 1993 | 546 | #457 | 0.30 |
| 1992 | 518 | #476 | 0.28 |
| 1991 | 409 | #568 | 0.22 |
| 1990 | 355 | #631 | 0.19 |
| 1989 | 219 | #846 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 151 | #1,053 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 110 | #1,274 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 91 | #1,405 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 85 | #1,461 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 71 | #1,584 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,202 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,254 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,856 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,701 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,254 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,964 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,682 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,378 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,570 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,798 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,746 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,636 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,590 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,889 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,346 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bryanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bryanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bryanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bryanna, and how old are they?
19,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 19,643 Americans ever recorded as Bryanna. The median Bryanna alive today is 24 years old; half are between 18 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 15,186 people named Bryanna (15,151 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,782 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 139 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,670 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,610 |
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 Bryanna born?
The states with the most babies named Bryanna are Florida, Texas and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 13 | #1,126 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,935 | 1.1× |
| New York | 11 | #1,248 | 1.1× |
Where Bryanna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bryanna is most over-represented in Florida: since 1959 it was given 1.3 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 Bryanna 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 420,155 babies since 1880, Bryanna is the fourth most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 1,962 babies (4.0%), the third 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 Bryanna
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 Bryanna and names like it
- Compare Bryanna and BriannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBryanna peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bryanna since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Bryanna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bryanna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.