girls:
96.1k births since 1950
#383 (93rd percentile)
boys:
206 births since 1984
#4380 (4th percentile)
overall:
96.3k births since 1950
#703 (91st percentile)
The name Briana is the #703 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 96,316 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 90.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #383 (93.3% percentile) for all time with 96,110 births since 1950. For boys, it ranks #4,380 (4.4% percentile) for all time with 206 births since 1984.
Briana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (1950 for girls and 1984 for boys). Birth data for Briana is available in 72 out of the 74 years between 1950 and 2023 (72 years for girls and 21 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 Briana has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Briana reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 92.1% percentile (ranked #68) with 2,565 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 2,565 births per million (ranked 92.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1997, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Briana ranks #422 for girls (55.5% percentile) with 373 births per million, which is 14.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Briana reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #740) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Briana".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Briana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.6% confident that Briana is pronounced as bree-AH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bree-A-nuh, at 20.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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