Brienna
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brienna has been given to 1,694 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 78 recorded.
Babies named Brienna, 2023
1 in 474,000
Brienna over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Brienna?
Brienna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 229,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,234 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brienna sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brienna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Briennas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brienna was born before 1998 — so the typical Brienna is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 37.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 49.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,694
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (642).
Is Brienna 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1992 (78)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.5% average annual change
Spellings of Brienna
Brienna is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 44.3% against Brienna's 0.12%.
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 Brienna is used
Across 1910–2025, Brienna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 313,887 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Michigan1 in 100,000
- 3Minnesota1 in —
- 4New Jersey1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Ohio1 in —
- 7Pennsylvania1 in —
- 8Texas1 in —
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. Brienna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Brienna around the world
Where Brienna 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 & Wales2017–2021#4,634in 2021
- Canada1992–2017#2,944in 2017
- South Australia1988–2011#840in 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.
Brienna by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Brienna
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brienna
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.