Entry № 1629 · Irish origin

Brianna Brianna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ bree-AN-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Noble / strong (Brianna Keilar, CNN anchor; Outlander's Brianna)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "noble / strong (brianna keilar, cnn anchor; outlander's brianna)".

Brianna is the English feminine of Brian — from the Old Irish Brígh ("noble, high, strong") — first popularized in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590).

Noble / strong.

The name in its native script.

Brianna
Transliteration
Brianna
Pronunciation
/ briˈæn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Brianna stands.

Brianna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Briannas before her.

Real people
Brianna Keilar
American CNN anchor.
born 1980
Brianna Hildebrand
American actress.
born 1996
Brianna Decker
American Olympic gold-medalist hockey player.
born 1991
In fiction
Brianna Fraser
Outlander.
1991

Names connected to Brianna.

The number behind Brianna.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Brianna reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.