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Branna

Gender
Girl
Say it
BRAN-ah
Origin
Irish

Branna is a girls' name of Irish origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Branna come from?

Irish: possibly a variant of Brenna

Is Branna a girl's or a boy's name?

Branna is a girls' name.

How popular is Branna in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1998, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984.

Half of all the girls named Branna in the US since 1880 were born between 1995 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

1984Busiest: 11 in 19982016
Branna in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20167#12,871
20157#13,001
20140–
20138#11,964
20120–
20110–
20105#16,985
20090–
20088#12,574
20077#13,918
20065#17,163
20055#16,455
20046#14,172
20030–
20026#13,589
20010–
20005#15,024
19996#12,681
199811#8,011
19975#13,719
19968#9,576
19958#9,548
19940–
19936#11,773
19926#11,730
19917#10,263
19905#12,952
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19846#9,139

Names like Branna

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Branna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/branna, updated 20 October 2026.