Briana

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Briana: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Briana: Recorded every year since 1994, it reached #93 in 2000, and it stood at #898 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
48times a registrar ranked it
31years from first to last
#93highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1296
1997	#1666
1998	#1076
1999	#1393
2000	#1475
2001	#1617
2002	#1928
2003	#1129
2004	#1072
2005	#1082
2006	#1119
2007	#1234
2008	#1447
2009	#1752
2010	#2235
2011	#1665
2012	#1991
2013	#2176
2014	#1966
2015	#2705
2016	#1749
2017	#1628
2018	#1649
2019	#2170
2020	#2449
2021	#2073
2022	#1326
2023	#1206
2024	#1894

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 15 of the 31 years from 1994 to 2024.

In 2024: #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1894 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1994–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1994
First recorded at #502 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1994 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1894 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Briana appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 465 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1994.

Briana across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Briana's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#502 (1994)	#345 (2006)	#898 (2024)	15 of 31	66 (1994–2024)	11 (2006)
England and Wales · Girls	#1296 (1996)	#1072 (2004)	#1894 (2024)	29 of 29	465 (1996–2024)	27 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#434 (2018)	#391 (2023)	#391 (2023)	3 of 6	9 (2018–2023)	3 (2018)

Briana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Briana in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	56	4 of 10	14
2000sbusiest	177	10 of 10	18
2010s	143	10 of 10	14
2020s	89	5 of 10	18

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 18 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Briana appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1994 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #93 in New Zealand in 2000.

Briana's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1894	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1206	27	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1326	24	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2449	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2170	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1628	19	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1749	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1966	14	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1991	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1665	17	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1752	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1447	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1234	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1119	24	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1082	23	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1072	22	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1129	20	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1617	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1475	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1393	13	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1076	19	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1666	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1296	14	High	Verified
2000	New Zealand	female	#93	49	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#434	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#624	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#345	11	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#528	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#363	7	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#534	3	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1994 and 2024, ranked in 31 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #93, first reached in 2000.

It held a top-100 place in 1 year.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 49 births, registered in New Zealand in 2000.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 24 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Briain · #323, 12y
Brian · #7, 79y
Brianna · #35, 33y
Brianne · #363, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Anika · #93, 30y
Bronte · #92, 30y
Whitney · #94, 30y
Aleisha · #95, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Anika · #93, 30y
Athena · #93, 30y
Baby · #93, 29y
Zayn · #93, 30y

Briana was ranked #93 in New Zealand · Girls in 2000. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Briana and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Briana without appearing here.

Briana moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2449 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2073 and #5581.
Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2176 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1966 and #4684.
Levi Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2705 and #2070 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1749 and #4096.
Yvonne Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2705 and #2496 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1749 and #4096.

Moved ahead of Briana

Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1966 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2705 and #1240.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2170 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2449 and #1313.
Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1617 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1928 and #938.
Meabh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1206 and #1288 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1894 and #952.

Moved the opposite way to Briana

Abigail Compare
Between 1994 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Briana went from #502 to #898 while Abigail went from #220 to #79.
Alice Compare
Between 1994 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Briana went from #502 to #898 while Alice went from #92 to #52.
Anna Compare
Between 1994 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Briana went from #502 to #898 while Anna went from #49 to #29.
Annie Compare
Between 1994 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Briana went from #502 to #898 while Annie went from #187 to #41.

Moved the same way as Briana

Aoife Compare
Between 1994 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Briana went from #502 to #898 and Aoife from #6 to #45.
Audrey Compare
Between 1994 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Briana went from #502 to #898 and Audrey from #240 to #898.
Eileen Compare
Between 1994 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Briana went from #502 to #898 and Eileen from #125 to #372.
Margaret Compare
Between 1994 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Briana went from #502 to #898 and Margaret from #45 to #181.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1994 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #93 in New Zealand in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Briana

Briana at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Briana across 3 official records

Briana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Briana appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Briana

Briana and the names beside it

Briana moved ahead of

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Briana at a glance

Briana across 3 official records

Briana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Briana appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Briana

Briana and the names beside it

Briana moved ahead of

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