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Briella

#362 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Gabriella

Briella has been given to 15,051 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #362 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 1,259 recorded.

Babies named Briella, 2025

1 in 3,920

Briella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Briella: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Gabriella

Hebrew

What Briella means

Briella is a short form of Gabriella.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Briella → Gabriella → Gabriel. The family’s meaning is “God is my strong man”, recorded in English with the source elements gaḇrīʾḗl.

Origin, language, and formation

Briella is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gabriella.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15,051 girls were recorded with the name Briella between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,259 in 2018; its best national rank was #259 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #297 in 2020 to #362 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank held the same position, from #362 in 2015 to #362 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 Briella?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 3,920
845 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 1,900
0.05% of girls
Rank, 2025
#362
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,721 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Briella 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 1002%
School of 50012%

Put another way: gather 2,721 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Briella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Briellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Briella was born before 2018 — so the typical Briella is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
59.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15,051
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 59.2% of all recorded uses (8,915).

Is Briella 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
+11
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−65
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
±0
No change
Births vs 10 years ago
0.93×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.1%
Peak was 2018 (1,259)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#259
2018

Spellings of Briella

Briella is not the most common spelling — Gabriella is, with 36.5% against Briella's 4.0%.

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 Briella is used

Across 2016–2025, Briella was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 495 girls, against 1 in 1,403 across all states with data. It was least common in New Hampshire (1 in 5,882).

17202 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 495
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 595
  3. 3North Dakota1 in 758
  4. 4South Dakota1 in 806
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 870
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 877
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 935
  8. 8Rhode Island1 in 943

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.

Geographically, Briella is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 23% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Briella around the world

Where Briella 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
    2012–2025
    #1,362
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2024–2024
    #407
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2016–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    2019–2025
    #2,609
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #597
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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

Briella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#362
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 65
Best rank ever
#259
2018
Peak year
2018
1,259 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15,051
Count in 2025
845

Names similar to Briella

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

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Names with a curve like Briella

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

AdelynnRaelynGracelynnBrinleyBrynleeEvelynnLeightonNylahCharleeSawyerCharleighFinley

Sibling names for Briella

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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