Meaning and history
Feminine form of Brian, the name Briana appears in Edmund Spenser’s epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590) and did not come into common use until the 1970s, when it quickly became popular in the United States.
20062006: 2,784 births, rank #123
2007: 2,826 births, rank #120
2008: 2,355 births, rank #146
2009: 2,075 births, rank #151
2010: 1,692 births, rank #183
20112011: 1,339 births, rank #235
2012: 1,063 births, rank #299
2013: 916 births, rank #350
2014: 766 births, rank #419
2015: 765 births, rank #421
20162016: 725 births, rank #443
2017: 679 births, rank #463
2018: 574 births, rank #542
2019: 547 births, rank #558
2020: 475 births, rank #614
20212021: 469 births, rank #631
2022: 572 births, rank #538
2023: 655 births, rank #470
2024: 565 births, rank #536
20252025: 431 births, rank #661
Briana moved from #536 to #661 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1994, with 5,000 births.