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Breann

#11,108 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Brian

Breann has been given to 5,816 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #11,108 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 299 recorded.

Babies named Breann, 2025

1 in 414,000

Breann over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Breann: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Brian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Breann means

Breann is a feminine form of Brian.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Breann is used in English (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /bɹi.ˈæn/ for Breann.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Breann → Brian. The family’s proposed meaning is “hill, high or might, power”, recorded in the naming reference for Brian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Brian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,816 girls were recorded with the name Breann between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 299 in 1996; its best national rank was #709 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,672 in 2020 to #11,108 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,151 in 2015 to #11,108 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 Breann?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,108
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Breann 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Breann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Breanns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Breann was born before 1994 — so the typical Breann is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,816
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (2,557).

Is Breann 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
+4,576
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,436
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,957
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.31×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.7%
Peak was 1996 (299)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#709
1996

Spellings of Breann

Breann is not the most common spelling — Brianna is, with 37.6% against Breann's 0.83%.

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 Breann is used

Across 1910–2025, Breann was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 37,486 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

016 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 6,250
  2. 2Arizona1 in 16,667
  3. 3Colorado1 in 16,667
  4. 4Washington1 in 16,667
  5. 5California1 in 20,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 20,000
  7. 7Iowa1 in 25,000
  8. 8Idaho1 in 25,000

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. Breann has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Breann around the world

Where Breann 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.

  • Canada
    1991–2014
    #3,202
    in 2014

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Breann by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,108
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,436
Best rank ever
#709
1996
Peak year
1996
299 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,816
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Breann

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

BreeannBreanaBreonnaBrettBreanneShyannLouannBreaBrennaRaeannRoxannBrennanBreezeSusannBreeLeeannBreezyBreasiaRuthannMariannJuliannBretteBrelynBreelyn

Names with a curve like Breann

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

KortneyJessikaJanayTiarraJesseniaTasiaKristianKrystaMaeganDomoniqueTieraAnjelica

Sibling names for Breann

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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