Briany is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Briany in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Briany in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Briany by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Briany ranks at #6,972. That means there are 6,971 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Briany.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Briany, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in Florida and New York. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Briany living in one state or another (if your name is Briany and you live outside of Florida and New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 965,891 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Briany. So, if your name is Briany it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Briany already makes you special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Briany is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.
If your name is Briany and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Briany, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Rocket
Igloo
Apple
Nut
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Briany
Briany
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
R
I
A
N
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
R
I
A
N
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Briany sounds like this:
