Meaning not yet researched.
Briana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 431 in 2025. Its best rank was #68 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #68 in 1994; #661 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Briana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#661 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #68.
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Briana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 431 girls in 2025. Peak: #68 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 5,000 (1994).
In 2025, 431 US girls were named Briana, making it the 661st most common girls’ name of the year, down 125 places from #536 in 2024. That is 134 fewer than the 565 girls named Briana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #68, reached in 1994. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,000. For comparison, it was #421 in 2015 and #3,995 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Briana in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 8 babies. In all, 97,326 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 42,904 babies named Briana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,692 US girls were named Briana; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 725. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,729 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Briana ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #273 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), Brianne (20,504 babies since 1880), Bryanna (19,643 babies since 1880) and Bria (16,870 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bryna, Breena and Breanah are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Bri.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bryna (1,441), Breena (893), Breanah (216), Bryona (181), Breuna (157), Brinae (134), Bryanah (118), Breiona (88), Breina (51), Brehana (28), Briyanah (16), Bryhana (14).
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.
Briana is listed as a nickname for Bryanna.
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 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 19 | #273 | #535 |
| Nevada | 7 | #384 | #212 |
| New Jersey | 19 | #409 | #329 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #421 | #345 |
| Florida | 40 | #464 | #315 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #477 | #340 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #490 | #681 |
| Illinois | 19 | #522 | #414 |
| Alabama | 9 | #534 | #626 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #535 | — |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #558 | #789 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #571 | #859 |
| Indiana | 11 | #583 | #867 |
| Texas | 54 | #583 | #305 |
| Georgia | 18 | #587 | #356 |
| Utah | 6 | #619 | #567 |
| Washington | 10 | #626 | #493 |
| California | 50 | #628 | #308 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #638 | #349 |
| Virginia | 10 | #706 | #376 |
| Colorado | 7 | #722 | #907 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #767 | #511 |
| New York | 20 | #797 | #294 |
| Ohio | 9 | #971 | #751 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,032 | #504 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,069 | #413 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,092 | #634 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 431 | #661 | — | — |
| 2024 | 565 | #536 | — | — |
| 2023 | 655 | #470 | — | — |
| 2022 | 572 | #539 | 5 | #12,635 |
| 2021 | 469 | #631 | — | — |
| 2020 | 475 | #614 | — | — |
| 2019 | 547 | #559 | — | — |
| 2018 | 574 | #542 | — | — |
| 2017 | 679 | #463 | — | — |
| 2016 | 725 | #443 | — | — |
| 2015 | 765 | #421 | — | — |
| 2014 | 766 | #419 | — | — |
| 2013 | 916 | #350 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,063 | #299 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,339 | #235 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,692 | #183 | 9 | #8,240 |
| 2009 | 2,075 | #151 | 7 | #10,016 |
| 2008 | 2,355 | #146 | — | — |
| 2007 | 2,826 | #120 | 6 | #11,111 |
| 2006 | 2,784 | #123 | 7 | #9,712 |
| 2005 | 2,542 | #126 | — | — |
| 2004 | 2,826 | #120 | 13 | #5,853 |
| 2003 | 3,059 | #114 | — | — |
| 2002 | 3,262 | #102 | 11 | #6,142 |
| 2001 | 3,236 | #101 | — | — |
| 2000 | 3,754 | #83 | 6 | #9,231 |
| 1999 | 3,839 | #82 | — | — |
| 1998 | 4,153 | #79 | 7 | #7,660 |
| 1997 | 4,476 | #72 | 7 | #7,381 |
| 1996 | 4,735 | #72 | 10 | #5,582 |
| 1995 | 4,612 | #74 | 12 | #4,829 |
| 1994 | 5,000 | #68 | 20 | #3,339 |
| 1993 | 4,880 | #71 | 14 | #4,252 |
| 1992 | 4,350 | #79 | 10 | #5,279 |
| 1991 | 3,689 | #95 | 12 | #4,518 |
| 1990 | 3,067 | #109 | 11 | #4,700 |
| 1989 | 2,353 | #126 | 18 | #3,217 |
| 1988 | 1,802 | #158 | 8 | #5,251 |
| 1987 | 1,450 | #190 | — | — |
| 1986 | 1,106 | #235 | — | — |
| 1985 | 788 | #307 | 7 | #5,213 |
| 1984 | 816 | #292 | 6 | #5,654 |
| 1983 | 688 | #335 | — | — |
| 1982 | 704 | #341 | — | — |
| 1981 | 572 | #394 | — | — |
| 1980 | 602 | #381 | — | — |
| 1979 | 500 | #420 | — | — |
| 1978 | 377 | #504 | — | — |
| 1977 | 362 | #514 | — | — |
| 1976 | 200 | #736 | — | — |
| 1975 | 179 | #785 | — | — |
| 1974 | 118 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1973 | 121 | #981 | — | — |
| 1972 | 92 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1971 | 99 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1970 | 68 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1969 | 70 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,419 | — | — |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,257 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,215 | — | — |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,370 | — | — |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,844 | — | — |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,955 | — | — |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,935 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,876 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,786 | — | — |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,270 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,488 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #3,995 | — | — |
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).