Meaning not yet researched.
Brianna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,372 in 2025. Its best rank was #14 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #14 in 1999; #222 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brianna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#222 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #14.
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Brianna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,372 girls in 2025. Peak: #14 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 12,880 (2000).
In 2025, 1,372 US girls were named Brianna, making it the 222nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 41 places from #181 in 2024. That is 305 fewer than the 1,677 girls named Brianna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #14, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 12,880, in 2000. For comparison, it was #82 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brianna in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 8 babies. In all, 265,237 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 99,978 babies named Brianna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 19,923 US girls were named Brianna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,098. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,171 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brianna ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #124 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), Bryanna (19,643 babies since 1880), Brienne (1,509 babies since 1880) and Breanna (82,440 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brina, Bryonna and Briyana are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Bri.
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: Brina (1,374), Bryonna (892), Briyana (804), Briyanna (753), Breaunna (636), Breannah (555), Breahna (521), Briaunna (446), Breianna (435), Brinna (430), Brianah (413), Breiana (315), 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.
Brianna 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 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 7 | #124 | #82 |
| New Jersey | 62 | #126 | #38 |
| Massachusetts | 42 | #127 | #106 |
| Maryland | 35 | #131 | #58 |
| Florida | 133 | #135 | #60 |
| Nevada | 15 | #168 | #67 |
| Virginia | 48 | #170 | #64 |
| Connecticut | 18 | #178 | #53 |
| Texas | 183 | #179 | #53 |
| Colorado | 31 | #193 | #125 |
| Louisiana | 22 | #196 | #66 |
| North Carolina | 55 | #197 | #95 |
| New York | 82 | #205 | #45 |
| California | 158 | #210 | #66 |
| Georgia | 48 | #220 | #86 |
| Iowa | 15 | #230 | #186 |
| Tennessee | 31 | #250 | #109 |
| Washington | 28 | #255 | #104 |
| Illinois | 40 | #263 | #107 |
| Kansas | 12 | #263 | #109 |
| Kentucky | 16 | #276 | #116 |
| Indiana | 24 | #293 | #138 |
| South Carolina | 17 | #299 | #121 |
| Missouri | 20 | #300 | #200 |
| Pennsylvania | 36 | #305 | #131 |
| Arizona | 23 | #307 | #83 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #313 | #135 |
| Idaho | 7 | #314 | — |
| Alabama | 15 | #323 | #162 |
| Utah | 13 | #340 | #199 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #342 | #77 |
| Ohio | 32 | #349 | #165 |
| Oregon | 9 | #399 | #156 |
| Minnesota | 12 | #429 | #225 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #447 | #155 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #536 | #132 |
| Michigan | 11 | #697 | #163 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,372 | #222 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,677 | #181 | 5 | #12,621 |
| 2023 | 1,885 | #152 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,709 | #171 | 5 | #12,636 |
| 2021 | 1,601 | #184 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,878 | #145 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,937 | #147 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2,244 | #132 | 5 | #12,450 |
| 2017 | 2,522 | #123 | 5 | #12,560 |
| 2016 | 3,098 | #97 | — | — |
| 2015 | 3,475 | #82 | 6 | #10,873 |
| 2014 | 3,616 | #85 | — | — |
| 2013 | 3,915 | #71 | 9 | #8,204 |
| 2012 | 4,646 | #51 | 9 | #8,246 |
| 2011 | 5,183 | #45 | 7 | #9,754 |
| 2010 | 6,281 | #30 | 7 | #9,837 |
| 2009 | 7,357 | #24 | 8 | #9,095 |
| 2008 | 8,278 | #23 | 14 | #6,110 |
| 2007 | 8,855 | #22 | 9 | #8,271 |
| 2006 | 9,370 | #20 | 13 | #6,148 |
| 2005 | 9,370 | #20 | 12 | #6,277 |
| 2004 | 9,804 | #17 | 53 | #2,195 |
| 2003 | 10,584 | #17 | 22 | #3,850 |
| 2002 | 11,524 | #17 | 11 | #6,143 |
| 2001 | 11,776 | #18 | 20 | #3,986 |
| 2000 | 12,880 | #15 | 18 | #4,229 |
| 1999 | 12,419 | #14 | 19 | #3,856 |
| 1998 | 12,047 | #17 | 12 | #5,187 |
| 1997 | 12,008 | #17 | 13 | #4,697 |
| 1996 | 11,925 | #17 | 18 | #3,695 |
| 1995 | 11,881 | #21 | 20 | #3,319 |
| 1994 | 10,516 | #27 | 21 | #3,228 |
| 1993 | 8,775 | #32 | 18 | #3,515 |
| 1992 | 7,296 | #43 | 13 | #4,349 |
| 1991 | 6,561 | #51 | 18 | #3,343 |
| 1990 | 5,680 | #61 | 9 | #5,430 |
| 1989 | 3,995 | #77 | 12 | #4,299 |
| 1988 | 2,963 | #96 | 13 | #3,731 |
| 1987 | 2,287 | #122 | 7 | #5,538 |
| 1986 | 1,815 | #154 | — | — |
| 1985 | 1,420 | #190 | — | — |
| 1984 | 1,355 | #197 | 7 | #5,030 |
| 1983 | 972 | #242 | — | — |
| 1982 | 891 | #273 | — | — |
| 1981 | 727 | #324 | — | — |
| 1980 | 708 | #341 | — | — |
| 1979 | 713 | #329 | — | — |
| 1978 | 299 | #574 | — | — |
| 1977 | 223 | #698 | — | — |
| 1976 | 138 | #933 | — | — |
| 1975 | 78 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,178 | — | — |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,469 | — | — |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,864 | — | — |
| 1966 | 11 | #3,983 | — | — |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,526 | — | — |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,657 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,921 | — | — |
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).