How Many People Are Named Breanna?

81,143

people named Breanna are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 4,212 people in the US has this name

Based on 82,440 babies named Breanna in Social Security records from 1965 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#648

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#340

See the top 100

Peak Year

1996

4,701 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: bree-AN-ə, bree-AHN-ə
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of BRIANA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Breanna in English. Counting Breanna and these spellings together, about 474,946 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.9%
Male
0.1%

Almost all of the babies given the name Breanna (99.9%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Breanna alive today is about 26 years old, and 64% are under 30. Half of them were between 21 and 32 in 2025.

Under 30 51,636
63.6%
30 to 59 29,503
36.4%
60 and over 4
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Breanna first appears in the records in 1965 and was given most often in 1996, to 4,701 babies. In 2025, 69 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1965 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Breanna never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #74, in 1996 to 1997 and 1999, and it was in the top 100 for 10 years, 1992 to 2001. In 2025 it ranked #2,548.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,548
Best rank#74 (1996 to 1997 and 1999)
Years in the top 10010 (1992 to 2001)
Rank in its biggest decade#88 in the 1990s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Breanna alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Breanna were born in California than in any other state: about 11,108 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Breanna was given 2.2 times as often in Wyoming, 2 times in Mississippi and 2 times in West Virginia.

California 11,108
Texas 6,120
Florida 3,661
Ohio 3,591
Michigan 3,265
Illinois 3,126
Georgia 2,798
New York 2,792
Pennsylvania 2,695
Indiana 2,408
North Carolina 2,192
Tennessee 2,022
Missouri 1,939
Alabama 1,851
Arizona 1,781
Minnesota 1,780
Washington 1,746
Wisconsin 1,623
Kentucky 1,567
Louisiana 1,552
South Carolina 1,410
Virginia 1,393
Colorado 1,303
Oklahoma 1,282
Mississippi 1,261
Iowa 1,096
New Jersey 1,028
Oregon 1,019
Maryland 1,006
Utah 1,004
Arkansas 996
Kansas 947
West Virginia 812
Nevada 734
Nebraska 648
Massachusetts 647
New Mexico 570
Idaho 488
Connecticut 359
North Dakota 290
Maine 285
Montana 238
South Dakota 229
Alaska 221
New Hampshire 169
Wyoming 164
Delaware 141
Hawaii 128
Rhode Island 92
District of Columbia 63
Vermont 31

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