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Brianna vs Brihanna

American parents have registered 265,237 Briannas since 1880, against 832 Brihannas. Brianna is still ahead, with 1,372 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Brianna Brihanna

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 2009, when Brianna had 7,365 and Brihanna had 118.

Side by side

  Brianna Brihanna
Total US births 265,237832
Most in one year 12,898118
Babies in 2025 1,37212
Estimated living today 262,000830
Median age today 2415
Peak year 20002009
Best rank 15th girls1,822nd girls
Rank in 2025 222nd8,362nd
First recorded 19631990
Girls / boys 264,799 / 438832 / 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 Briannas alive today are over 24; half the Brihannas are over 15. That is 9 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Brianna Brihanna
England and Wales 2,37536
France 67550

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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