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Brienne

#12,131 in 2025Girls' name

From French Brienne; literal meaning unconfirmed

Brienne has been given to 1,509 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #12,131 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 122 recorded.

Babies named Brienne, 2025

1 in 474,000

Brienne over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brienne: meaning, origin, and history

From French Brienne; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brienne means

Brienne is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Brienne is used in English.

Brienne comes through French Brienne.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,504 girls were recorded with the name Brienne between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 122 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,113 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,034 in 2020 to #12,131 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,507 in 2015 to #12,131 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Brienne between 1980 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1980; its best national rank was #6,366 in 1980.

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 Brienne?

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
#12,131
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

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

When Briennes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brienne was born before 1989 — so the typical Brienne is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,504
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (591).

Is Brienne 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
−3,592
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,097
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,624
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.23×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.7%
Peak was 1979 (122)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,113
1979

Spellings of Brienne

Brienne is not the most common spelling — Brianna is, with 56.0% against Brienne's 0.32%.

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 Brienne is used

Across 1910–2025, Brienne was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 310,690 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in —
  6. 6Maryland1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Minnesota1 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. Brienne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brienne around the world

Where Brienne 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
    2014–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2019
    #2,373
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Brienne by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,131
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,097
Best rank ever
#1,113
1979
Peak year
1979
122 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,504
Count in 2025
7

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,366
1980
Peak year
1980
5 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Brienne

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

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Sibling names for Brienne

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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