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Briana vs Brina

American parents have registered 97,326 Brianas since 1880, against 1,374 Brinas. Briana is still ahead, with 431 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Briana Brina

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 75 years in which either name was published, Briana for 74 years and Brina for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Briana Brina
Total US births 97,3261,374
Most in one year 5,02060
Babies in 2025 4318
Estimated living today 96,0001,300
Median age today 2728
Peak year 19941996
Best rank 68th girls2,229th girls
Rank in 2025 661st10,917th
First recorded 19501947
Girls / boys 97,120 / 2061,369 / 5

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: Briana and Brina.