How popular is the name Breonna?

Breonna ranks 2,063rd among girls' names in US records, with 5,171 births since 1978. Over the past decade it accounts for 216.

Is Breonna a unisex name?

No. Breonna is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1994, when 280 children were given the name. It has been in use for 47 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Breonnah, Breeannah. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#2,063 of girl names

Pronounced B R IY1 AE1 N N AA1 (ARPABET)

Breonna is a girls' name, and first appears in 1978. It has been given to 5,171 children — the 2,063rd most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 216 births across the past decade, against a peak of 280 in a single year. That peak was in 1994.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Breonnah and Breeannah — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Breonna and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Breonna?: Breonna ranks 2,063rd among girls' names in US records, with 5,171 births since 1978. Over the past decade it accounts for 216.
Is Breonna a unisex name?: No. Breonna is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Breonna most popular?: 1994, when 280 children were given the name. It has been in use for 47 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Breonna spelled?: Breonnah, Breeannah. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.