Girl · Irish (modern feminine)
Briana
Say it: bree-AN-uh
Meaning
A modern feminine of Brian, an Irish name of uncertain origin; Spenser used Briana for a character in The Faerie Queene.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Popular in the US in the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1990s
In the United States
- 94,601 babies given this name since 1950
- At its height in 1994, about 1 in 357 girls
- 470 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Brianna, Breanna
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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