Breanna
#2,542 for girls in 2025, 69 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #4,421
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 4,701 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 10 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 82,375since 1965
Breanna over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,542 | 69 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,823 | 110 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,724 | 119 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,670 | 126 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,484 | 144 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,183 | 196 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,149 | 209 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,035 | 249 | — | |
| 2017 | #928 | 285 | — | |
| 2016 | #782 | 363 | — | |
| 2015 | #664 | 429 | — | |
| 2014 | #625 | 459 | — | |
| 2013 | #508 | 592 | — | |
| 2012 | #398 | 778 | — | |
| 2011 | #308 | 1,027 | — | |
| 2010 | #250 | 1,286 | — | |
| 2009 | #204 | 1,583 | — | |
| 2008 | #168 | 1,978 | — | |
| 2007 | #138 | 2,497 | — | |
| 2006 | #126 | 2,769 | — | |
| 2005 | #124 | 2,640 | — | |
| 2004 | #115 | 2,898 | #4,421 | 19 |
| 2003 | #105 | 3,272 | — | |
| 2002 | #104 | 3,198 | — | |
| 2001 | #93 | 3,368 | — | |
| 2000 | #80 | 3,826 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #74 | 4,341 | — | |
| 1998 | #76 | 4,250 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #74 | 4,444 | — | |
| 1996 | #74 | 4,701 | — | |
| 1995 | #76 | 4,527 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #85 | 4,101 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #83 | 4,027 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #94 | 3,451 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #107 | 3,233 | — | |
| 1990 | #113 | 2,951 | — | |
| 1989 | #163 | 1,747 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #210 | 1,243 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #271 | 905 | — | |
| 1986 | #341 | 704 | — | |
| 1985 | #347 | 673 | — | |
| 1984 | #366 | 628 | — | |
| 1983 | #436 | 483 | — | |
| 1982 | #522 | 379 | — | |
| 1981 | #555 | 336 | — | |
| 1980 | #628 | 290 | — | |
| 1979 | #804 | 196 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,255 | 98 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,380 | 81 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,334 | 35 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,456 | 32 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Breanna! It came in at #6,539, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Breanna
- 719 spots since 2024 (#1,823 → #2,542)
- 1,359 spots since 2020 (#1,183 → #2,542)
- 1,878 spots since 2015 (#664 → #2,542)
- Biggest jump: 451 spots in 1979 (#1,255 → #804)
- Biggest drop: 146 spots in 2017 (#782 → #928)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 1996 at #74 (4,701 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 10 yrs · run 1992–2001
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1979–2017
- Highest: 1 in 373 girls born in 1996 were named Breanna (0.27%)
- Latest: 1 in 23,294 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 48.6% of all girls named Breanna (40,026) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #6,539 (1965) | #6,539 |
| 1970s | 486 | #804 (1979) | #3,781 |
| 1980s | 7,388 | #163 (1989) | #384 |
| 1990s | 40,026 | #74 (1996) | #86 |
| 2000s | 28,029 | #80 (2000) | #126 |
| 2010s | 5,677 | #250 (2010) | #665 |
| 2020s | 764 | #1,183 (2020) | #1,738 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Breanna in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 416 of them was named Breanna, which outranked 99.5% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 382,273 of them was named Breanna, which outranked 14.9% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,680 names at #9,631; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.