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Briana vs Brittiny

American parents have registered 97,326 Brianas since 1880, against 597 Brittinys. Briana is still ahead, with 431 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Briana Brittiny

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 1985, when Briana had 795 and Brittiny had 35.

Side by side

  Briana Brittiny
Total US births 97,326597
Most in one year 5,02068
Babies in 2025 431under 5
Estimated living today 96,000580
Median age today 2735
Peak year 19941989
Best rank 68th girls1,910th girls
Rank in 2025 661stunranked
First recorded 19501980
Girls / boys 97,120 / 206597 / 0

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 Brittinys alive today are over 35; half the Brianas are over 27. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Brittiny.