Briana

English

Alternative forms

Breana, Breann, Breanna, Breanne, Brianna, Brianne, Bryana, Bryanna, Bryanne

Proper noun

Briana

A female given name from Irish, masculine equivalent Brian, in regular use since the 1970s.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 14:
  Sayd then that Squire: The Lady which doth owne
  This Castle, is by name Briana hight.
  Then which a prouder Lady liveth none:

Derived terms

(diminutive): Bria

Anagrams

arabin, barani, barian

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