girls:
261.7k births since 1963
#153 (97th percentile)
boys:
433 births since 1984
#4153 (9th percentile)
overall:
262.1k births since 1963
#301 (96th percentile)
The name Brianna is the #301 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 262,135 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 96.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #153 (97.3% percentile) for all time with 261,702 births since 1963. For boys, it ranks #4,153 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 433 births since 1984.
Brianna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (1963 for girls and 1984 for boys).
The name Brianna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Brianna reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 98.5% percentile (ranked #14) with 6,378 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 6,454 births per million (ranked 98.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2000, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Brianna ranks #149 for girls (84.4% percentile) with 1,072 births per million, which is 16.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Brianna reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 5.7% percentile (ranked #799) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 25 births per million (ranked 5.7% 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 "Brianna".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Brianna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.0% confident that Brianna is pronounced as bree-A-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bree-AH-nuh, at 26.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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