Breanna

Where Breanna comes from

The dictionaries list Breanna as a given name — a female given name from the Celtic languages, of American usage, variant of Brianna — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Celtic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1965
    First appearance
    #6,539 among girls, 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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.