Briona
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Briona has been given to 1,683 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1993, with 122 recorded.
Babies named Briona, 2018
1 in 391,000
Briona 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Briona?
Briona had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 391,000
- 9 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 189,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 270,856 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Briona sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 270,856 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Briona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brionas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Briona was born before 1997 — so the typical Briona is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 54.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 73.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,683
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 54.1% of all recorded uses (910).
Is Briona 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1993 (122)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.2% average annual change
Spellings of Briona
Briona is not the most common spelling — Brianna is, with 36.0% against Briona's 0.23%.
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 Briona is used
Across 1910–2025, Briona was most concentrated in Delaware — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 178,798 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 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. Briona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Briona around the world
Where Briona 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.
- Ireland1992–2023#727in 2023
Popularity data from Central Statistics Office. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.
Briona by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Briona
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Briona
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.