Brighton — #1985 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Brighton

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,929 babies named Brighton between 1983 and 2024, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brighton currently holds the #1985 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 157 babies received it in a single year. Brighton is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,078 additional births since 1986.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brighton performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,312 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Brighton shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 249 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Brighton in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brighton in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,929 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.