Breonna

Where Breonna comes from

The dictionaries list Breonna as a given name — a female given name of African-American usage — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1978
    First appearance
    #9,750 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1993
    Breonna Taylor born
    EMT, victim of police shooting in the United States
  3. 1995
    Peak, #734
    279 babies named Breonna — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,818.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name of African-American usage.
Namesakes
  • Breonna Taylor · EMT, victim of police shooting in the United States, 1993–2020

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.