Briana
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[edit]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
[edit]- (diminutive): Bria