Breana
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 1994 · 678 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,224since 1973
Breana over time
Rank among girls' names. Breana has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 |
| 2016 | #4,157 | 35 |
| 2015 | #3,767 | 40 |
| 2014 | #3,778 | 40 |
| 2013 | #3,918 | 38 |
| 2012 | #2,232 | 84 |
| 2011 | #1,909 | 104 |
| 2010 | #1,420 | 161 |
| 2009 | #1,292 | 187 |
| 2008 | #1,211 | 210 |
| 2007 | #896 | 308 |
| 2006 | #844 | 318 |
| 2005 | #847 | 298 |
| 2004 | #719 | 370 |
| 2003 | #687 | 380 |
| 2002 | #619 | 412 |
| 2001 | #614 | 408 |
| 2000 | #542 | 480 |
| 1999 | #472 | 556 |
| 1998 | #460 | 560 |
| 1997 | #417 | 625 |
| 1996 | #382 | 698 |
| 1995 | #401 | 655 |
| 1994 | #378 | 678 |
| 1993 | #395 | 638 |
| 1992 | #445 | 568 |
| 1991 | #473 | 515 |
| 1990 | #547 | 432 |
| 1989 | #693 | 291 |
| 1988 | #885 | 199 |
| 1987 | #1,109 | 135 |
| 1986 | #1,177 | 120 |
| 1985 | #1,287 | 104 |
| 1984 | #1,657 | 66 |
| 1983 | #1,733 | 62 |
| 1982 | #1,850 | 58 |
| 1981 | #2,447 | 39 |
| 1980 | #1,904 | 56 |
| 1979 | #2,020 | 50 |
| 1978 | #3,388 | 22 |
| 1977 | #2,909 | 27 |
| 1976 | #3,407 | 20 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Breana! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Breana is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,410 · 1 in 16,481
Best ever in a state: #135 in Rhode Island, 1997.
Show every state
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| California | #1,410 | 11 | 1 in 16,481 |
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See more about Breana
- 2,386 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #7,885)
- 962 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #7,885)
- 4,118 spots since 2015 (#3,767 → #7,885)
- Biggest jump: 224 spots in 1988 (#1,109 → #885)
- Biggest drop: 315 spots in 2008 (#896 → #1,211)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1994 at #378 (678 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1988–2007
- Highest: 1 in 2,511 girls born in 1996 were named Breana (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #378 in 1994, was only 1 in 2,634 (0.04%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 52.8% of all girls named Breana (5,925) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 150 | #2,020 (1979) | #4,175 |
| 1980s | 1,130 | #693 (1989) | #1,474 |
| 1990s | 5,925 | #378 (1994) | #437 |
| 2000s | 3,371 | #542 (2000) | #827 |
| 2010s | 567 | #1,420 (2010) | #3,890 |
| 2020s | 81 | #5,984 (2022) | #8,247 |
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.
Breana in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 42,771 of them was named Breana, which outranked 79.9% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,409Tarrah40
- #2,409Tova40
- #2,409Vikki40
- #2,447Breana39
- #2,447Akia39
- #2,447Alyse39
- #2,447Brielle39
- #2,488Adrien38
- #2,488Alida38
- #2,488Alyce38
Tied with 40 names at #2,447; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.