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Breonna

#11,111 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Breonna has been given to 5,169 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #11,111 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 280 recorded.

Babies named Breonna, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Breonna: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Breonna means

Breonna is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Breonna is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,169 girls were recorded with the name Breonna between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 280 in 1994; its best national rank was #734 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,662 in 2020 to #11,111 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,005 in 2015 to #11,111 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Breonna?

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
#11,111
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Breonna 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 Breonna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Breonnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Breonna was born before 2000 — so the typical Breonna is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
44.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,169
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (2,301).

Is Breonna 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
−696
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,449
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,106
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.9%
Peak was 1994 (280)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#734
1995

Spellings of Breonna

Breonna is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 55.5% against Breonna's 0.47%.

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 Breonna is used

Across 1910–2025, Breonna was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 37,430 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 14,286
  2. 2Florida1 in 20,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 20,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 20,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 20,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 20,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 25,000
  8. 8Kentucky1 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. Breonna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Breonna in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Breonna. Linked forms have their own page here.

Breaunna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Breonna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,111
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,449
Best rank ever
#734
1995
Peak year
1994
280 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,169
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Breonna

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

BrennaBreeannaBreannaBreyannaBreyonnaBreaunnaBreunnaBreanneBreiannaBrennanBreannBrionnaBreasiaAliannaRhiannaAiyannaBreelynRihannaLeeannaBreanaDayannaCorinnaBrelynnBrenley

Names with a curve like Breonna

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

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Sibling names for Breonna

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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