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Briana vs Brinn

American parents have registered 97,326 Brianas since 1880, against 620 Brinns. Briana is still ahead, with 431 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Briana Brinn

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

Briana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1950 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Briana had 1,063 and Brinn had 36.

Side by side

  Briana Brinn
Total US births 97,326620
Most in one year 5,02036
Babies in 2025 4319
Estimated living today 96,000610
Median age today 2718
Peak year 19942012
Best rank 68th girls4,121st girls
Rank in 2025 661st10,107th
First recorded 19501980
Girls / boys 97,120 / 206605 / 15

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Brianas alive today are over 27; half the Brinns are over 18. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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