# Bria (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bria/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 16,870 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 55 / 16,815 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 313, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Bria, a surname of uncertain meaning.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 440 | 648 |
| 2012 | 439 | 647 |
| 2013 | 449 | 622 |
| 2014 | 590 | 522 |
| 2015 | 442 | 650 |
| 2016 | 370 | 770 |
| 2017 | 400 | 718 |
| 2018 | 357 | 762 |
| 2019 | 382 | 741 |
| 2020 | 342 | 796 |
| 2021 | 360 | 789 |
| 2022 | 377 | 760 |
| 2023 | 296 | 900 |
| 2024 | 256 | 1,002 |
| 2025 | 199 | 1,163 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 5 | 4,010 |
| 1977 | 6 | 5,209 |
| 1984 | 8 | 4,607 |
| 1985 | 8 | 4,748 |
| 1986 | 6 | 6,019 |
| 1987 | 7 | 5,537 |
| 1988 | 5 | 7,415 |
| 1989 | 5 | 8,044 |
| 1997 | 5 | 9,445 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | 1,807 |
| 2012 | 12 | 2,215 |
| 2013 | 12 | 2,176 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,862 |
| 2015 | 12 | 2,195 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2017 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2018 | 11 | 2,340 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,643 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,449 |
| 2021 | 19 | 1,569 |
| 2022 | 15 | 1,849 |
| 2023 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2024 | 13 | 2,115 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2,440 |

## People named Bria

- Bria Hartley, American basketball player
- Bria Skonberg, Canadian jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and songwriter

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.