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Breana

#7,963 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Briana

Breana has been given to 11,224 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #7,963 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 698 recorded.

Babies named Breana, 2025

1 in 255,000

Breana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Breana: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Briana

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Breana means

Breana is a variant of Briana.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Briana.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,224 girls were recorded with the name Breana between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 698 in 1996; its best national rank was #378 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,976 in 2020 to #7,963 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,780 in 2015 to #7,963 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Breana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,963
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Breana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Breana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Breanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Breana was born before 1997 — so the typical Breana is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
52.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
11,224
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 52.8% of all recorded uses (5,925).

Is Breana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+2,446
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−987
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,183
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.9%
Peak was 1996 (698)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#378
1994

Spellings of Breana

Breana is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 40.6% against Breana's 0.75%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Breana is used

Across 1910–2025, Breana was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 16,537 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 7,692
  2. 2California1 in 8,333
  3. 3Nevada1 in 8,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 10,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 11,111
  6. 6Colorado1 in 14,286
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 14,286
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Breana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Breana around the world

Where Breana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2008
    #2,774
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1982–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Breana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,963
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 987
Best rank ever
#378
1994
Peak year
1996
698 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,224
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Breana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BreeanaBreyanaBreannBreanneBrennaRoxanaAiyanaAitanaIlianaAlianaAvianaBreonnaDayanaAryanaBreeMilanaJohanaBreianaBryanaSusanaIleanaBrettSavanaGiana

Names with a curve like Breana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Breana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TaylerAlexandreaKierraKatlynCaylaTylerKelsiKatelinKailaKaelaCieraAllyssa

Sibling names for Breana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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