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A female given name from Irish, masculine equivalent Brian, in regular use since the 1970s. quotations examples
Sayd then that Squire: The Lady which doth owneThis Castle, is by name Briana hight.Then which a prouder Lady liveth none:
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 14