Meaning not yet researched.
Breanna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 69 in 2025. Its best rank was #74 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #74 in 1999; #2,548 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Breanna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,548 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #74.
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Breanna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 69 girls in 2025. Peak: #74 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 4,701 (1996).
In 2025, 69 US girls were named Breanna, making it the 2,548th most common girls’ name of the year, down 721 places from #1,827 in 2024. That is 41 fewer than the 110 girls named Breanna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #74, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,701, in 1996. For comparison, it was #665 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Breanna in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 5 babies. In all, 82,440 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 40,056 babies named Breanna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,870 US girls were named Breanna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 363. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,294 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Breanna ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,593 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Brianna (265,237 babies since 1880), Briana (97,326 babies since 1880), Brenna (29,371 babies since 1880) and Bryanna (19,643 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Breyonna, Brennah and Breyona are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Bree and Bri.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Breyonna (862), Brennah (523), Breyona (495), Breeona (145), Breeonna (127), Breeauna (55), Breyannah (14), Breyauna (10), Breonnah (6), Breeahna (6), Breyunna (6), Breahanna (6), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,593 | #659 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,988 | #703 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,548 | — | — |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 2023 | 119 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 2022 | 126 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 2021 | 144 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 2020 | 196 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 2019 | 209 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 2018 | 249 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 2017 | 285 | #928 | — | — |
| 2016 | 363 | #783 | — | — |
| 2015 | 429 | #665 | — | — |
| 2014 | 459 | #625 | — | — |
| 2013 | 592 | #509 | — | — |
| 2012 | 778 | #398 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,027 | #308 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,286 | #250 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,583 | #204 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,978 | #168 | — | — |
| 2007 | 2,497 | #138 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2,769 | #126 | — | — |
| 2005 | 2,640 | #124 | — | — |
| 2004 | 2,898 | #115 | 19 | #4,442 |
| 2003 | 3,272 | #105 | — | — |
| 2002 | 3,198 | #104 | — | — |
| 2001 | 3,368 | #94 | — | — |
| 2000 | 3,826 | #80 | 5 | #10,565 |
| 1999 | 4,341 | #74 | — | — |
| 1998 | 4,250 | #76 | 5 | #9,805 |
| 1997 | 4,444 | #74 | — | — |
| 1996 | 4,701 | #74 | — | — |
| 1995 | 4,527 | #76 | 7 | #7,080 |
| 1994 | 4,101 | #85 | 7 | #7,054 |
| 1993 | 4,027 | #83 | 6 | #7,743 |
| 1992 | 3,451 | #94 | 5 | #8,575 |
| 1991 | 3,233 | #107 | — | — |
| 1990 | 2,951 | #113 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,747 | #163 | 5 | #8,040 |
| 1988 | 1,243 | #210 | 6 | #6,523 |
| 1987 | 905 | #271 | — | — |
| 1986 | 704 | #341 | — | — |
| 1985 | 673 | #347 | — | — |
| 1984 | 628 | #366 | — | — |
| 1983 | 483 | #436 | — | — |
| 1982 | 379 | #522 | — | — |
| 1981 | 336 | #555 | — | — |
| 1980 | 290 | #628 | — | — |
| 1979 | 196 | #804 | — | — |
| 1978 | 98 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,339 | — | — |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,487 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,906 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,634 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,677 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,145 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,627 | — | — |
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).