Bria

Where Bria comes from

A 20th-century short form of Briana.
— Wiktionary's entry for Bria
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1973
    First appearance
    #5,191 among girls, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1973
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1992
    Bria Hartley born
    American basketball player
  4. 1993
    Bria Vinaite born
    Lithuanian actress
  5. 1993
    Peak, #175
    1,698 babies named Bria — more than any year before or since.
  6. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #340.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Bria Vinaite · Lithuanian actress, born 1993
  • Bria Hartley · American basketball player, born 1992
  • Bria Skonberg · Canadian jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and songwriter, born 1983
  • Bria Holmes · Female basketball player, born 1994
  • Bria Roberts · American actress, born 1990

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.