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Brianna vs Brieanne

American parents have registered 265,237 Briannas since 1880, against 667 Brieannes. Brianna is still ahead, with 1,372 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Brianna against Brieanne, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Brianna Brieanne

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

Brianna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1979, when Brianna had 713 and Brieanne had 45.

Side by side

  Brianna Brieanne
Total US births 265,237667
Most in one year 12,89845
Babies in 2025 1,372under 5
Estimated living today 262,000650
Median age today 2436
Peak year 20001979
Best rank 15th girls2,187th girls
Rank in 2025 222ndunranked
First recorded 19631977
Girls / boys 264,799 / 438667 / 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 Brieannes alive today are over 36; half the Briannas are over 24. That is 12 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: Brianna and Brieanne.