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Breanne

#12,126 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Brian

Breanne has been given to 10,352 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #12,126 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 517 recorded.

Babies named Breanne, 2025

1 in 474,000

Breanne over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Breanne: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Brian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Breanne means

Breanne is a feminine form of Brian.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Breanne is used in English (Modern).

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Breanne → 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, 10,352 girls were recorded with the name Breanne between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 517 in 1991; its best national rank was #472 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,676 in 2020 to #12,126 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,095 in 2015 to #12,126 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 Breanne?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,126
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Breanne 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Breanne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Breannes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Breanne was born before 1991 — so the typical Breanne is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
39.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
10,352
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (4,088).

Is Breanne 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
−5,141
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,450
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−9,031
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.13×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.4%
Peak was 1991 (517)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#472
1991

Spellings of Breanne

Breanne is not the most common spelling — Brianna is, with 37.8% against Breanne's 1.5%.

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 Breanne is used

Across 1910–2025, Breanne was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 18,397 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

025 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 4,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 6,667
  3. 3Oregon1 in 7,692
  4. 4Idaho1 in 9,091
  5. 5Arizona1 in 10,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 10,000
  7. 7Nevada1 in 10,000
  8. 8California1 in 11,111

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

Breanne around the world

Where Breanne 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
    1997–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1999–2010
    #5,524
    in 2010
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1983–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Breanne by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,126
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,450
Best rank ever
#472
1991
Peak year
1991
517 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,352
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Breanne

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

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Names with a curve like Breanne

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

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Sibling names for Breanne

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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