Brianna
2025 SSA
About Brianna
Brianna's popularity in the US came later than father name Brian's, peaking in the 1990s, two decades after Brian's Top 10 reign of the 1970s.
But Brianna is more popular than Brian now, along with sister name Briana even taking a slight upward turn recently. That fresh sheen might be credited to Brienne of Tarth, a warrior-heroine of Game of Thrones.
Though it sounds like it might be a modern invention, the name actually appeared as far back as the sixteenth century in Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queen. And Brian goes back a lot further, to Irish high king Brian Boru's reign around the year 1000.
Pronounced bree-AN-uh.
As of October 2026, Brianna ranked #222 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #14 in 1999, Nameberry popularity #869.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #85 | 3,614 | 2,023.1 |
| 2015 | #82 | 3,475 | 1,946.7 |
| 2016 | #97 | 3,097 | 1,747.7 |
| 2017 | #123 | 2,519 | 1,459.1 |
| 2018 | #132 | 2,243 | 1,318.6 |
| 2019 | #147 | 1,936 | 1,153.5 |
| 2020 | #145 | 1,878 | 1,161.7 |
| 2021 | #184 | 1,597 | 973.3 |
| 2022 | #171 | 1,708 | 1,041.4 |
| 2023 | #152 | 1,883 | 1,173.5 |
| 2024 | #181 | 1,673 | 1,032.6 |
| 2025 | #222 | 1,372 | 853.6 |
World rankings
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Brianna on lists
Famous Briannas
- Brianna Perry aka Lil' Brianna
American rapper
- Brianna Lynn Brown
American actress
- Brianna Marie Keilar
American TV journalist
- Brianna Caitlin Hildebrand
American actress
- Brianna Decker
American ice hockey player
- Brianna Love
American adult film actress
- Brianna Lea Pruett
American singer,songwriter
- Brianna Taylor
American reality TV personality and singer
- (Megan) Brianna McConnell
actress; twin sister Brittany McConnell
- Brianna Monique Garcia
Colace aka Brie Bella, American pro wrestler
- Brianna Adkins
daughter of country singer Trace Adkins
Brianna in pop culture
- Brianna
character in the Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke
- Brianna "The Breeze
" character in the "Gone" series by Michael Grant
- Brianna
character in "Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac"
- Brianna
character in movie "A Cinderella Story"
- Brianna "Bree" Timmins
character on Australian TV soap "Neighbours"
- Brianna Bauer
character in "The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes"
- Brianna
main character's younger sister in the "Dork Diaries" series
- Brianna
character in Melody Carlson's "Never Been Kissed"
- Brianna Hanson
character in "Grace and Frankie"
- Brianna Ellen Randall Fraser Mackenzie
character in the Outlander Series, daughter of James “Jamie” Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser and Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp Randall Fraser