Brianna is the English feminine of Brian — from the Old Irish *Brígh* ("noble, high, strong") — first popularized in Edmund Spenser's *The Faerie Queene* (1590). **A top-20 US baby name from 1991 to 2007, peaking at #14 in 2002**. **Brianna Keilar (born 1980)** — **American journalist of Australian-Cuban heritage; co-anchor of CNN's *CNN News Central* (2023-present); previously *New Day* (2021-2023) and *CNN Right Now with Brianna Keilar* (2018-2021); one of the most-recognized faces of CNN's primetime/morning lineup of the 2020s**. **Author of *Saving 9: A Veterans Resilience Project* (2024), focused on military and veteran mental health**. **Brianna Randall Fraser** — heroine of Diana Gabaldon's *Outlander* book series (1991-present) — the 20th-century time-traveling daughter of Claire and Jamie Fraser; played by Sophie Skelton in the Starz adaptation (2014-present). **Brianna Hildebrand** (born 1996) — *Deadpool* (2016) and *Deadpool 2* (2018) as Negasonic Teenage Warhead. **Brianna Decker** — American Olympic gold-medalist hockey player (Pyeongchang 2018). **Brianna Wu** — American video-game developer and US Congressional candidate; one of the central figures of the 2014 Gamergate controversy. **Brianna LaPaglia** (Brianna Chickenfry) — popular American podcaster and influencer.
Featured throughout 1990s-2020s American culture.
Brianna reduces to six — the number of Outlander's heroine.