Meaning not yet researched.
Breonna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #735 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #735 in 1995; #11,115 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Breonna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,115 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #735.
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Breonna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #735 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 280 (1994).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Breonna, making it the 11,115th most common girls’ name of the year, down 695 places from #10,420 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 9 girls named Breonna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #735, reached in 1995. The most girls given the name in a single year was 280, in 1994. For comparison, it was #5,007 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Breonna in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 5 babies. In all, 5,169 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,301 babies named Breonna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 198 US girls were named Breonna; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brianna (265,237 babies since 1880), Breanna (82,440 babies since 1880), Brenna (29,371 babies since 1880) and Bryanna (19,643 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Breonna 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 | 8 | #11,115 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,420 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,464 | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,030 | — | — |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,111 | — | — |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,664 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,625 | — | — |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,579 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,393 | — | — |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,161 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,007 | — | — |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,283 | — | — |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,086 | — | — |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,710 | — | — |
| 2011 | 95 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 2010 | 112 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 2009 | 147 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 2008 | 195 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 2007 | 196 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 2006 | 211 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 2005 | 185 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 2004 | 200 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 2003 | 239 | #971 | — | — |
| 2002 | 238 | #941 | — | — |
| 2001 | 201 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 2000 | 217 | #976 | — | — |
| 1999 | 211 | #980 | — | — |
| 1998 | 222 | #934 | — | — |
| 1997 | 260 | #800 | — | — |
| 1996 | 271 | #773 | — | — |
| 1995 | 279 | #735 | — | — |
| 1994 | 280 | #742 | — | — |
| 1993 | 266 | #776 | — | — |
| 1992 | 208 | #933 | — | — |
| 1991 | 156 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1990 | 148 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 1987 | 32 | #2,976 | — | — |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,659 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,649 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,016 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,496 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,575 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #4,994 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,261 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,752 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,928 | — | — |
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).