Brienne
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · Last seen for boys in 1980 at #6,250
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 122 births
- Debut · girls
- 20 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,504since 1977
Brienne over time
Rank among girls' names. Brienne has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | — | |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | — | |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | — | |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,003 | 25 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,260 | 33 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,147 | 35 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,734 | 29 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,488 | 31 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 | — | |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | — | |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 | — | |
| 2009 | #6,317 | 21 | — | |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 | — | |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | — | |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | — | |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,673 | 20 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | — | |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | — | |
| 1999 | #4,201 | 27 | — | |
| 1998 | #4,636 | 23 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,448 | 33 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,632 | 30 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,987 | 26 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,686 | 21 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,737 | 42 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,104 | 34 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,039 | 33 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,657 | 37 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,952 | 56 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,928 | 57 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,050 | 49 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,485 | 77 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,769 | 62 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,455 | 83 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,260 | 103 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #1,113 | 122 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,801 | 29 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,612 | 20 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brienne! It came in at #3,612, and was given to 20 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2006–2007, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Brienne is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#398 · 1 in 2,782
- Minnesota#517 · 1 in 5,555
- New Jersey#654 · 1 in 5,313
- Ohio#771 · 1 in 9,011
- Pennsylvania#818 · 1 in 9,773
Best ever in a state: #398 in Maryland, 1979.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #398 | 7 | 1 in 2,782 |
| Minnesota | #517 | 5 | 1 in 5,555 |
| New Jersey | #654 | 7 | 1 in 5,313 |
| Ohio | #771 | 8 | 1 in 9,011 |
| Pennsylvania | #818 | 7 | 1 in 9,773 |
| Michigan | #871 | 6 | 1 in 9,931 |
| New York | #1,026 | 10 | 1 in 9,892 |
| California | #1,067 | 16 | 1 in 10,208 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 14,939 |
| Texas | #1,686 | 5 | 1 in 22,222 |
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See more about Brienne
- 3,489 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #11,932)
- 6,929 spots since 2020 (#5,003 → #11,932)
- 7,444 spots since 2015 (#4,488 → #11,932)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1979 at #1,113 (122 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,158 girls born in 1979 were named Brienne (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.3% of all girls named Brienne (591) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 171 | #1,113 (1979) | #2,509 |
| 1980s | 591 | #1,260 (1980) | #2,070 |
| 1990s | 267 | #2,737 (1990) | #4,113 |
| 2000s | 146 | #5,377 (2004) | #8,549 |
| 2010s | 239 | #4,147 (2017) | #6,200 |
| 2020s | 90 | #5,003 (2020) | #8,009 |
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.
Brienne in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
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1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 13,158 of them was named Brienne, which outranked 90.7% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,104Shonna123
- #1,104Talisha123
- #1,104Yasmin123
- #1,113Brienne122
- #1,113Lina122
- #1,113Rosalia122
- #1,113Stormy122
- #1,120Francis120
- #1,120Kevin120
- #1,120Marybeth120
Tied with 6 names at #1,113; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.