Briana - Meaning of Briana

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Briana

[ 3 syll. bria-na, br-i-ana ] The baby boy name Briana is also used as a girl name, with the latter form being much more common. Its pronunciation is BRiy-AA-Naa- or BRiy-AE-N-aa- †. Briana's origin is Celtic. Briana is a variant of the name Brian (English, Gaelic, and Irish).

See also the related category celtic.

Briana is an infrequently used baby name for boys. It is listed outside of the top 1000 names. In 2018, within the group of boy names directly linked to Briana, Brian was the most popular. In the past century Briana has predominantly been a girl name.

Baby names that sound like Briana include Barami (Hebrew), Berhanu, Berihun, Birino, Brawnee, Brianna, Briano (Italian), Bruino, Brunone (Italian), Brycyn, Burimi (Albanian), Baern, Baerne, Bahram, Bairam, Bairn, Bairne, Bajram (Albanian and Turkish), Baram (Hebrew), and Baran (Russian).

† English pronunciation for Briana: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)"