girls:
82.2k births since 1965
#428 (93rd percentile)
boys:
65 births since 1988
#4521 (1st percentile)
overall:
82.3k births since 1965
#784 (90th percentile)
The name Breanna is the #784 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 82,251 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 89.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #428 (92.5% percentile) for all time with 82,186 births since 1965. For boys, it ranks #4,521 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 65 births since 1988.
Breanna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (1965 for girls and 1988 for boys). Birth data for Breanna is available in 55 out of the 59 years between 1965 and 2023 (55 years for girls and 9 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Breanna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Breanna reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 91.8% percentile (ranked #74) with 2,230 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 2,451 births per million (ranked 91.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1999, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Breanna ranks #833 for girls (12.1% percentile) with 68 births per million, which is 2.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Breanna reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #833) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Breanna".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Breanna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.4% confident that Breanna is pronounced as bree-A-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BREE-a-nuh, at 15.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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