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Briana vs Brice

American parents have registered 97,326 Brianas since 1880, against 16,116 Brices. Briana is still ahead, with 431 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Briana against Brice, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Briana Brice

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

Of the 135 years in which either name was published, Brice for 83 years and Briana for 52 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Briana Brice
Total US births 97,32616,116
Most in one year 5,020422
Babies in 2025 43142
Estimated living today 96,00014,000
Median age today 2728
Peak year 19941989
Best rank 68th girls477th boys
Rank in 2025 661st2,941st
First recorded 19501882
Girls / boys 97,120 / 206379 / 15,737

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Briana Brice
France 65028,390
England and Wales 47656
Belgium 97353
Scotland 83

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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