Brihana
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- bree-AN-ah
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Brihana is a girls' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Brihana mean?
Irish: spelling of Brihanna, itself a variant of Brianna, feminine of Brian, perhaps influenced by Rihanna
A spelling of Brianna, the feminine form of Brian, whose root is thought to be an old Celtic word for 'high'.
Meaning borrowed from Brihanna.
Is Brihana a girl's or a boy's name?
Brihana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Brihana in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Brihana, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 33 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
2025 had more girls named Brihana than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Brihana in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Brihana in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,660 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,449 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,115 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,734 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,481 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
Nicknames for Brihana
- Bri 10 girls in the US in 2025
Names like Brihana
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan, Mckenna, Brynlee, Brianna, Briella, Cassidy, Braelynn, Kennedy, Brynn, Briar, Kiara, Brenna
Names related to Brihana
More Irish names
Oscar, Rowan, Rory, Maeve, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Quinn, Orla, Cody, Erin, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey
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, “Brihana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/brihana, updated 20 October 2026.