Briany
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- bree-AH-nee
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #6,324 for girls
Briany is a girls' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).
Where does Briany come from?
Irish: spelling of Brianny; Latin American variant of Brianna
Meaning borrowed from Brianny.
Is Briany a girl's or a boy's name?
Briany is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Briany in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,324th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 89,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 22% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Briany, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
2025 had fewer girls named Briany than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Briany in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 62 girls in the US were given Briany or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,290, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.
Briany in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,612 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,544 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,025 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,394 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,304 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,794 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,891 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,711 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,043 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
Nicknames for Briany
- Bri 10 girls in the US in 2025
Names like Briany
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Cassidy, Teagan, Kennedy, Brynlee, Braelynn, Brynn, Mckenna, Brylee, Eowyn, Devyn, Keiry, Rowan
Other spellings of Briany
Names related to Briany
More Irish names
Oscar, Rory, Maeve, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Quinn, Orla, Cody, Erin, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey, Callan
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, “Briany: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/briany, updated 20 October 2026.