Breanna is the feminine of Brian — from the Old Irish Brían, possibly from brígh (strong, noble). A top-200 US baby name from 1989 to 2008. Breanna Stewart (born 1994) — American professional basketball player; two-time WNBA MVP (2018, 2023); two-time WNBA champion (Seattle Storm 2018, 2020); the only player in NCAA history to win four consecutive national championships at UConn (2013-2016) and four straight Final Four Most Outstanding Player awards. 2024 EuroLeague Women MVP playing for UMMC Yekaterinburg, then transferring after the Russian invasion of Ukraine to play in Turkey. Two Olympic gold medals (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020). Came out as bisexual in 2017; married Spanish basketball player Marta Xargay in 2021. Founder of Stewy Studios production company; openly discussed surviving childhood sexual abuse in a 2017 Players' Tribune essay**.
Subject of countless WNBA retrospectives.
Breanna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Breanna reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.