Breanna
Breanna is a girl's name that peaked in 1996, when it was the 74th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,542nd. About 81,000 Breannas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Breanna boys named Breanna
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 82,440
- Estimated living today
- 81,000
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 1996
- Best rank
- 74th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,542nd
- First recorded
- 1965
- Girls / boys
- 82,375 / 65
How old the living Breannas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 82,440 babies given the name since 1965, about 81,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 9,900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Celtic languages
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Breannas
- Breanna Stewart (born 1994)American basketball player
- Breanna Yde (born 2003)Australian actress and singer
People named Breanna with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Breanna is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Breanna is most concentrated in Nevada (2.7×), Alaska (2.0×), Arizona (1.8×), Idaho (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1996
The most popular girls’ names the year Breanna peaked:
Breanna elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Breanna | 546 | 553rd |
| Scotland girls | Breanna | 46 | 437th |
| Ireland girls | Breanna | 43 | 464th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Breanna | 22 | 282nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Breanna against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.