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Briana vs Briza

American parents have registered 97,326 Brianas since 1880, against 1,311 Brizas. Briana is still ahead, with 431 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Briana Briza

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 2010, when Briana had 1,701 and Briza had 114.

Side by side

  Briana Briza
Total US births 97,3261,311
Most in one year 5,020114
Babies in 2025 43110
Estimated living today 96,0001,300
Median age today 2719
Peak year 19942010
Best rank 68th girls1,794th girls
Rank in 2025 661st9,457th
First recorded 19501979
Girls / boys 97,120 / 2061,311 / 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 Brianas alive today are over 27; half the Brizas are over 19. 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 Briza.