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Brianda

Girl · Medieval Iberian, uncertain

Brianda

Say it: bree-AN-dah

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Meaning

Uncertain; there is no agreed explanation.

Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.

Found among noblewomen of Aragon and Castile in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Its wave through time

A fashion of the 1990s

In the United States

05101518801900192019401960198020002020Peak 1992per 100,000 babies of that sex
  • 1,894 babies given this name since 1979
  • At its height in 1992, about 1 in 7,000 girls
  • 19 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
  2. The Renaissance1400 to 1600

Used by

Spanish

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Where this comes from

  • Medieval Spanish and Portuguese chronicles and charters
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.