Breanna

Where Breanna comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Breanna.

  • Celtic
  • Vowel-ended
Breanna through the years
  1. 1965
    First appearance
    #6,539 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Breanna Stewart born
    American basketball player
  3. 1996
    Peak, #74
    4,701 babies named Breanna, the most in any year.
  4. 2003
    Breanna Yde born
    Australian actress and singer
  5. 2008
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #168.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Celtic languages, of American usage, variant of Brianna.
Namesakes
  • Breanna Stewart · American basketball player, born 1994
  • Breanna Yde · Australian actress and singer, born 2003
  • Breanna Clark · American athletics competitor, born 1994
  • Breanna Sinclairé · American transgender opera singer, born 1991
  • Breanna Lewis · American basketball player, born 1994

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.