Brianna

Feminine variation of Brian
"strong, virtuous and honorable"

Brianna Origin and Meaning

The name Brianna is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "strong, virtuous and honorable".

Brianna's popularity in the US came later than father name Brian's, peaking in the 1990s, two decades after Brian's Top 10 reign of the 1970s.

But Brianna is more popular than Brian now, along with sister name Briana even taking a slight upward turn recently. That fresh sheen might be credited to Brienne of Tarth, a warrior-heroine of Game of Thrones.

Though it sounds like it might be a modern invention, the name actually appeared as far back as the sixteenth century in Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queen. And Brian goes back a lot further, to Irish high king Brian Boru's reign around the year 1000.

# 152 in the US

Brianna Rank in US Top 1000

# 652 on Nameberry

Brianna Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Brianna Popularity

Famous People Named Brianna

  • Brianna Perry aka Lil' Brianna
    American rapper
  • Brianna Lynn Brown
    American actress
  • Brianna Marie Keilar
    American TV journalist
  • Brianna Caitlin Hildebrand
    American actress
  • Brianna Decker
    American ice hockey player
  • Brianna Love
    American adult film actress
  • Brianna Lea Pruett
    American singer,songwriter
  • Brianna Taylor
    American reality TV personality and singer
  • (Megan) Brianna McConnell
    actress; twin sister Brittany McConnell
  • Brianna Monique Garcia
    Colace aka Brie Bella, American pro wrestler
  • Brianna Adkins
    daughter of country singer Trace Adkins

Brianna in Pop Culture

  • Brianna
    character in the Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke
  • Brianna "The Breeze
    " character in the "Gone" series by Michael Grant
  • Brianna
    character in "Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac"
  • Brianna
    character in movie "A Cinderella Story"
  • Brianna "Bree" Timmins
    character on Australian TV soap "Neighbours"
  • Brianna Bauer
    character in "The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes"
  • Brianna
    main character's younger sister in the "Dork Diaries" series
  • Brianna
    character in Melody Carlson's "Never Been Kissed"
  • Brianna Hanson
    character in "Grace and Frankie"
  • Brianna Ellen Randall Fraser Mackenzie
    character in the Outlander Series, daughter of James “Jamie” Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser and Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp Randall Fraser

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