Meaning not yet researched.
Bria: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 199 in 2025. Its best rank was #175 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #175 in 1993; #1,163 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bria in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,163 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #175.
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Bria: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 199 girls in 2025. Peak: #175 in 1993 · most girls in one year: 1,698 (1993).
In 2025, 199 US girls were named Bria, making it the 1,163rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 161 places from #1,002 in 2024. That is 57 fewer than the 256 girls named Bria in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #175, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,698. For comparison, it was #650 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bria in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 16,870 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 6,783 babies named Bria.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,339 US girls were named Bria; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 400. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,077 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bria ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #523 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Briana (97,326 babies since 1880), Briar (13,349 babies since 1880), Brea (5,739 babies since 1880) and Ria (4,115 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Breah, Briah and Breya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Breah (948), Briah (794), Breya (692), Bre (461), Breia (410), Breea (377), Brya (361), Briya (297), Briyah (268), Bryah (208), Briea (163), Brei (70), 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.
No nicknames listed for Bria in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 9 | #523 | #355 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #551 | #329 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #613 | #257 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #827 | #441 |
| Maryland | 5 | #863 | #425 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #908 | #621 |
| Missouri | 5 | #957 | #528 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,035 | #610 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,063 | #682 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,071 | #627 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,161 | #546 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,182 | #694 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,204 | #670 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,246 | #731 |
| New York | 10 | #1,336 | #759 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,473 | #877 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,489 | #720 |
| California | 13 | #1,663 | #1,031 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 199 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 2024 | 256 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 2023 | 296 | #900 | — | — |
| 2022 | 377 | #760 | — | — |
| 2021 | 360 | #789 | — | — |
| 2020 | 342 | #796 | — | — |
| 2019 | 382 | #741 | — | — |
| 2018 | 357 | #762 | — | — |
| 2017 | 400 | #718 | — | — |
| 2016 | 370 | #770 | — | — |
| 2015 | 442 | #650 | — | — |
| 2014 | 590 | #522 | — | — |
| 2013 | 449 | #622 | — | — |
| 2012 | 439 | #647 | — | — |
| 2011 | 440 | #648 | — | — |
| 2010 | 354 | #776 | — | — |
| 2009 | 318 | #869 | — | — |
| 2008 | 298 | #919 | — | — |
| 2007 | 309 | #895 | — | — |
| 2006 | 303 | #876 | — | — |
| 2005 | 296 | #853 | — | — |
| 2004 | 254 | #948 | — | — |
| 2003 | 283 | #853 | — | — |
| 2002 | 356 | #702 | — | — |
| 2001 | 352 | #704 | — | — |
| 2000 | 370 | #659 | — | — |
| 1999 | 376 | #628 | — | — |
| 1998 | 475 | #532 | — | — |
| 1997 | 571 | #445 | 5 | #9,445 |
| 1996 | 678 | #390 | — | — |
| 1995 | 774 | #340 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,102 | #253 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,698 | #175 | — | — |
| 1992 | 801 | #334 | — | — |
| 1991 | 190 | #988 | — | — |
| 1990 | 113 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,603 | 5 | #8,044 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,642 | 5 | #7,415 |
| 1987 | 108 | #1,294 | 7 | #5,537 |
| 1986 | 64 | #1,786 | 6 | #6,019 |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,257 | 8 | #4,748 |
| 1984 | 48 | #2,082 | 8 | #4,607 |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1982 | 52 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 1981 | 52 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,938 | — | — |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,561 | 6 | #5,209 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,692 | — | — |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,386 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,708 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,227 | — | — |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,010 |
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).