Briana
Brianna, Breanna, Briana, and Bryanna are feminine given names. Brianna is a feminine English language form of the masculine Irish language name Brian as "Briana" is the original spelling. The name is a relatively modern one and was occasionally used in England from about the 16th century and on; Briana is the name of a character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Briana
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Brianna, Breanna, Briana, and Bryanna are feminine given names. Brianna is a feminine English language form of the masculine Irish language name Brian as "Briana" is the original spelling. The name is a relatively modern one and was occasionally used in England from about the 16th century and on; Briana is the name of a character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Briana
American parents first put Briana on the record books as a baby girl name in 1950, with 8 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1994, when 5,000 Brianas were born — ranking #68 that year. About 44% of every Briana on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Briana ranks #483 for baby girls with 631 births, gradually rising (+10%). All told, over 98K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Briana
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Names that sound like Briana
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About the name Briana
Briana is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1950 and has accumulated 98K births in the dataset. Briana's peak popularity came in 1994 when it ranked #68. Use the chart and map above to compare Briana's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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