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Briahna vs Brianna

American parents have registered 265,237 Briannas since 1880, against 1,162 Briahnas. Brianna is still ahead, with 1,372 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Briahna against Brianna, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Briahna Brianna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Brianna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Briahna had 82 and Brianna had 8,292.

Side by side

  Briahna Brianna
Total US births 1,162265,237
Most in one year 8212,898
Babies in 2025 under 51,372
Estimated living today 1,100262,000
Median age today 2324
Peak year 20082000
Best rank 2,354th girls15th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked222nd
First recorded 19821963
Girls / boys 1,162 / 0264,799 / 438

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Briahna and Brianna.