Briana

Where Briana comes from

The dictionaries list Briana as a given name — a female given name from Irish, masculine equivalent Brian, in regular use since the 1970s — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Irish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1950
    First appearance
    #3,962 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Briana Banks born
    German-American pornographic actress and model
  3. 1986
    Briana Evigan born
    American actress
  4. 1994
    Peak, #68
    5,000 babies named Briana — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2008
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #146.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish, masculine equivalent Brian, in regular use since the 1970s.
Namesakes
  • Briana Banks · German-American pornographic actress and model, born 1979
  • Briana Evigan · American actress, born 1986
  • Briana Scurry · American soccer player, born 1971
  • Briana Williams · Jamaican athletics competitor, born 2002
  • Briana Blair · American pornographic actress and basketball cheerleader, born 1987

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.