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I named one of my daughters Brianna in 1970, do you know of anyone older with this name?
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Yes, there were certainly girls named Brianna before 1970. The US Social Security department provides records of all names which have been used at least 5 times in the US, for every year since 1880. (You can access this at https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/limits.html).
This data reveals that 31 girls were named Brianna in 1970, 19 in 1969, and so forth. The first year in which Brianna appears is 1963, when there were 8. This does not mean that there were no girls at all named Brianna before 1963, but if there were fewer than five in any given year, they would not be included in the data.
For instance, although this is not the same spelling, I had a high school teacher named Bryana, pronounced like Brianna, in the 1980s. Since she had a daughter my age, she could not have been born later than about 1950. So the name, in various spellings, may have existed at a low level for quite a long time.
This data reveals that 31 girls were named Brianna in 1970, 19 in 1969, and so forth. The first year in which Brianna appears is 1963, when there were 8. This does not mean that there were no girls at all named Brianna before 1963, but if there were fewer than five in any given year, they would not be included in the data.
For instance, although this is not the same spelling, I had a high school teacher named Bryana, pronounced like Brianna, in the 1980s. Since she had a daughter my age, she could not have been born later than about 1950. So the name, in various spellings, may have existed at a low level for quite a long time.
This message was edited 4/30/2020, 8:07 AM
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You could try and looking up censuses to see if anybody has been listed with that name pre-1970 if you can't find ant other record of it being used prior to that year.
www.familysearch.org is a free database if you wanna have a quick look.
www.familysearch.org is a free database if you wanna have a quick look.
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