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Briana vs Brianda

American parents have registered 97,326 Brianas since 1880, against 1,973 Briandas. Briana is still ahead, with 431 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Briana against Brianda, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Briana Brianda

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Briana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1950 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Briana had 4,360 and Brianda had 265.

Side by side

  Briana Brianda
Total US births 97,3261,973
Most in one year 5,020265
Babies in 2025 43111
Estimated living today 96,0001,900
Median age today 2728
Peak year 19941992
Best rank 68th girls777th girls
Rank in 2025 661st8,860th
First recorded 19501979
Girls / boys 97,120 / 2061,968 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Briana and Brianda.