Girls' name · peaked in 1979

Brianne name popularity since 1925

20,504 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Brianne. Half of them were born in 1990 or earlier, so the typical Brianne is about 36 years old in 2026. Brianne peaked in 1979 as the #168 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 20,504; Named Brianne, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1979; #168 for girls that year
Typical age: About 36; Median birth year 1990
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #5,267 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.8% girls; 20,473 girls · 31 boys
Most popular in: Utah; 2.51× its national share

Peak year is the year Brianne made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Brianne births per year, 1925–2025

1979 was the biggest year for Brianne both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1978 and 1983, Brianne became 3.3× more common, from 1 in 7,580 baby girls to 1 in 2,300.
Steepest fall: Between 1979 and 1984, its share of baby girls fell by 53%, from 1 in 965 to 1 in 2,070.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Brianne's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Brianne.

Decade by decade

Babies named Brianne in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	0	0	–
1930s	0	0	Under 5
1940s	6	0	Under 5
1950s	24	0	#4,405
1960s	45	0	Under 5
1970s	2,024	9	#3,966
1980s	8,100	22	#331
1990s	6,763	0	#402
2000s	2,480	0	#994
2010s	827	0	#2,386
2020–25	204	0	#5,267

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

60.0% of babies named Brianne from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Millennial years (1981–1996). The full split by generation:

Where Brianne is most popular

The index compares Brianne's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Brianne.

State	Index	Babies
Utah	2.51×	397
Washington	2.07×	644
Colorado	1.77×	406
Arizona	1.61×	388
New Jersey	1.61×	823

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Brianne and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

Spelling	Girls	Peak year
Brianne (this page)	20,473	1979
Briann	1,609	1996
Bryanne	1,030	1989

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Brianne's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Brianne.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Brianne (1979).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data