Breanna

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Breanna: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #88 in 2000, and it stood at #3,695 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#88highest recorded position
12groupings 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	#2683
1997	#1958
1998	#1823
1999	#1261
2000	#1195
2001	#1439
2002	#1066
2003	#1026
2004	#667
2005	#553
2006	#717
2007	#645
2008	#831
2009	#932
2010	#1731
2011	#1903
2012	#1809
2013	#1864
2014	#2058
2015	#2070
2016	#1689
2017	#2502
2018	#3518
2019	#4686
2020	#3899
2021	#2942
2022	#2325
2023	#3598
2024	#3695

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 England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2013: #894 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1864 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1998–2000
Highest recorded position: #88 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 2000 (recorded 1998–2000).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Breanna appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 546 births with the name.

Breanna across 4 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.

Breanna'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
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#553 (2005)	#3695 (2024)	29 of 29	546 (1996–2024)	60 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#559 (2003)	#461 (2005)	#894 (2013)	8 of 11	43 (2003–2013)	7 (2006)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#343 (2001)	#282 (2009)	#282 (2009)	6 of 9	22 (2001–2009)	6 (2009)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#96 (1998)	#88 (2000)	#88 (2000)	3 of 3	254 (1998–2000)	85 (1998)

Breanna 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 Breanna in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	37	4 of 10	9
2000sbusiest	348	10 of 10	35
2010s	125	10 of 10	13
2020s	36	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 35 births a year.

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

Breanna 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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #88 in New South Wales, Australia in 2000.

Breanna'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	#3695	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2325	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1689	18	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2070	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1864	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1809	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1903	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1731	16	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#932	35	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#831	40	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#645	54	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#717	43	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#553	60	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#667	44	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1026	23	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1066	20	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1439	13	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1195	16	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1261	15	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1823	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1958	8	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
2000	New South Wales, Australia	female	#88	85	Insufficient	Not yet available
1999	New South Wales, Australia	female	#97	84	Insufficient	Not yet available
1998	New South Wales, Australia	female	#96	85	Insufficient	Not yet available
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#282	6	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#318	4	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#339	3	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#343	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#597	6	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#505	7	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#464	7	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#461	6	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#476	6	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
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 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #88, first reached in 2000.

It held a top-100 place in 3 years, 3 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 85 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1998.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 7 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.

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Brede · #181, 79y

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.

Nikki · #88, 34y
Heath · #87, 31y
Jai · #87, 30y
Kaitlin · #90, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Enzo · #88, 30y
Hope · #88, 33y
Eireann · #89, 30y
Elle · #89, 32y

Breanna was ranked #88 in New South Wales, Australia · 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.

Breanna 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 Breanna without appearing here.

Breanna moved ahead of

Kari Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4686 and #4686 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2325 and #5669.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2942 and #5581.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4686 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2942 and #5581.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2683 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1958 and #3824.

Moved ahead of Breanna

Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2502 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #1711.
Rory Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2502 and #2706 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #1977.
Malin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2325 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #2346.
Arlo Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2502 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #2340.

Moved the opposite way to Breanna

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Breanna went from #1958 to #3695 while Blake went from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Breanna went from #1958 to #3695 while Ezra went from #3824 to #1302.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Breanna went from #1261 to #3695 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Breanna went from #1261 to #3695 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.

Moved the same way as Breanna

Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Breanna went from #1823 to #3598 and Josefine from #3848 to #5687.
Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Breanna went from #1195 to #3695 and Hayden from #3912 to #5891.
Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Breanna went from #1066 to #3695 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

What's not yet available

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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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #88 in New South Wales, Australia in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Breanna

Breanna at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Breanna across 4 official records

Breanna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Breanna appears in

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Breanna at a glance

Breanna across 4 official records

Breanna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Breanna appears in

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Breanna

Breanna and the names beside it

Breanna moved ahead of

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