Meaning not yet researched.
Breana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #378 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #378 in 1994; #7,965 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Breana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,965 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #378.
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Breana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #378 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 698 (1996).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Breana, making it the 7,965th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,449 places from #10,414 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 9 girls named Breana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #378, reached in 1994. The most girls given the name in a single year was 698, in 1996. For comparison, it was #3,781 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Breana in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 11,224 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,925 babies named Breana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 181 US girls were named Breana; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brianna (265,237 babies since 1880), Briana (97,326 babies since 1880), Breanna (82,440 babies since 1880) and Brenna (29,371 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Breeyana and Breyanah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Breeyana (11), Breyanah (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Breana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,965 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,414 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,360 | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,029 | — | — |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,324 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,980 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,421 | — | — |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,485 | — | — |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,947 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,174 | — | — |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,781 | — | — |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,789 | — | — |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,936 | — | — |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 2010 | 161 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 2009 | 187 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 2008 | 210 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 2007 | 308 | #897 | — | — |
| 2006 | 318 | #845 | — | — |
| 2005 | 298 | #847 | — | — |
| 2004 | 370 | #721 | — | — |
| 2003 | 380 | #687 | — | — |
| 2002 | 412 | #619 | — | — |
| 2001 | 408 | #614 | — | — |
| 2000 | 480 | #542 | — | — |
| 1999 | 556 | #472 | — | — |
| 1998 | 560 | #460 | — | — |
| 1997 | 625 | #417 | — | — |
| 1996 | 698 | #382 | — | — |
| 1995 | 655 | #401 | — | — |
| 1994 | 678 | #378 | — | — |
| 1993 | 638 | #395 | — | — |
| 1992 | 568 | #445 | — | — |
| 1991 | 515 | #474 | — | — |
| 1990 | 432 | #547 | — | — |
| 1989 | 291 | #693 | — | — |
| 1988 | 199 | #885 | — | — |
| 1987 | 135 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1986 | 120 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1985 | 104 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,853 | — | — |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,449 | — | — |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,399 | — | — |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,420 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,888 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,247 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,555 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).