girls:
296 births since 1977
#5420 (5th percentile)
boys:
55 births since 1958
#4531 (1st percentile)
overall:
351 births since 1958
#7388 (5th percentile)
The name Briane is the #7,388 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 351 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 4.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,420 (5.1% percentile) for all time with 296 births since 1977. For boys, it ranks #4,531 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 55 births since 1958.
Briane first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (1958 for boys and 1977 for girls). Birth data for Briane is available in 33 out of the 48 years between 1958 and 2005 (27 years for girls and 10 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 Briane has been given predominantly to girls, with 84.3% of all recorded births being female. In 2005, 100.0% of babies named Briane were girls. Interestingly, until around 1979, the name was more popular for boys (86.8% boys from 1958 to 1978), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (93.0% girls from 1979 to 2005).
For girls, Briane reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #807) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
For boys, Briane reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #654) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Briane".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Briane. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Briane is pronounced as BRAI-an, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bree-UHN, at 15.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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