Brianna
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
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.
Brianna is also given to boys.
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 · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #85 | 3,614 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #82 | 3,475 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #97 | 3,097 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #123 | 2,519 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #132 | 2,243 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #147 | 1,936 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #145 | 1,878 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #184 | 1,597 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #171 | 1,708 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #152 | 1,883 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #181 | 1,673 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #222 | 1,372 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Brianna for girls
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Brianna on lists
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American ice hockey player
- Brianna LoveGirl
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- Brianna Lea PruettGirl
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- Brianna TaylorGirl
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- (Megan) Brianna McConnellGirl
actress; twin sister Brittany McConnell
- Brianna Monique GarciaGirl
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- Brianna AdkinsGirl
daughter of country singer Trace Adkins
Brianna in pop culture
- BriannaGirl
character in the Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke
- Brianna "The BreezeGirl
" character in the "Gone" series by Michael Grant
- BriannaGirl
character in "Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac"
- BriannaGirl
character in movie "A Cinderella Story"
- Brianna "Bree" TimminsGirl
character on Australian TV soap "Neighbours"
- Brianna BauerGirl
character in "The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes"
- BriannaGirl
main character's younger sister in the "Dork Diaries" series
- BriannaGirl
character in Melody Carlson's "Never Been Kissed"
- Brianna HansonGirl
character in "Grace and Frankie"
- Brianna Ellen Randall Fraser MackenzieGirl
character in the Outlander Series, daughter of James “Jamie” Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser and Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp Randall Fraser