How Many People Are Named Briana?

95,686

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

About 1 in 3,571 people in the US has this name

Based on 97,326 babies named Briana in Social Security records from 1950 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#568

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#297

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Peak Year

1994

5,020 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

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

Meaning:

Feminine form of BRIAN. This name was used by Edmund Spenser in 'The Faerie Queene' (1590). The name was not commonly used until the 1970s, when it rapidly became popular in the United States.

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

Same Sound, Other Spellings

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

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.8%
Male
0.2%

Almost all of the babies given the name Briana (99.8%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Briana alive today is about 26 years old, and 60% are under 30. Half of them were between 20 and 32 in 2025.

Under 30 57,611
60.2%
30 to 59 37,900
39.6%
60 and over 175
0.2%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Briana first appears in the records in 1950 and was given most often in 1994, to 5,020 babies. In 2025, 431 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1950 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Briana never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #68, in 1994, and it was in the top 100 for 10 years, 1991 to 2000. In 2025 it ranked #661.

Girls
Rank in 2025#661
Best rank#68 (1994)
Years in the top 10010 (1991 to 2000)
Rank in its biggest decade#83 in the 1990s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Briana were born in California than in any other state: about 16,610 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Briana was given 1.8 times as often in District of Columbia, 1.6 times in Rhode Island and 1.5 times in New Mexico.

California 16,610
Texas 10,752
New York 6,741
Florida 5,746
Illinois 3,931
Pennsylvania 3,401
New Jersey 3,274
Georgia 2,837
Ohio 2,826
North Carolina 2,552
Arizona 2,547
Michigan 2,471
Virginia 2,221
Massachusetts 1,751
Maryland 1,737
Tennessee 1,630
Indiana 1,521
Colorado 1,386
Washington 1,371
Missouri 1,272
Louisiana 1,271
South Carolina 1,210
Minnesota 1,206
Wisconsin 1,180
Alabama 1,159
Connecticut 1,145
Oklahoma 830
Kentucky 823
New Mexico 800
Nevada 721
Mississippi 720
Oregon 694
Kansas 682
Arkansas 581
Iowa 476
Utah 453
District of Columbia 442
Rhode Island 424
West Virginia 349
Nebraska 331
Hawaii 293
Delaware 239
Idaho 213
New Hampshire 198
Maine 198
Alaska 119
South Dakota 118
North Dakota 95
Montana 73
Wyoming 57
Vermont 51

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