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Brina

#11,113 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Brin

Brina has been given to 1,374 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #11,113 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Brina, 2025

1 in 414,000

Brina over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brina: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Brin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brina means

Brina is a feminine form of Brin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Brina is used in Slovene.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Brina → Brin. The family’s meaning is “juniper”, recorded in the naming reference for Brin.

Origin, language, and formation

Brina is used in English and Slovene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Brin and Sabrina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovene, Brina is pronounced /brìːna/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,369 girls were recorded with the name Brina between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 60 in 1996; its best national rank was #2,230 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,678 in 2020 to #11,113 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,044 in 2015 to #11,113 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Brina between 1986 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1986; its best national rank was #6,849 in 1986.

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 Brina?

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
#11,113
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

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

When Brinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brina was born before 1996 — so the typical Brina is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,362
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Choose a decade

1990s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (452).

Is Brina 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
+2,658
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,435
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,069
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.3%
Peak was 1996 (60)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,230
1996

Spellings of Brina

Brina is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 16.6% against Brina's 0.04%.

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 Brina is used

Across 1910–2025, Brina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 348,205 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Brina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brina around the world

Where Brina 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.

  • Canada
    1992–2001
    #2,016
    in 2001

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Brina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,113
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,435
Best rank ever
#2,230
1996
Peak year
1996
60 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,369
Count in 2025
8

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,849
1986
Peak year
1986
5 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Brina

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

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Sibling names for Brina

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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