Brighton
Brighton is given to both girls and boys: 70 girls and 84 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,517 among girls’ names and #1,872 among boys’, #2,644 among all names counting both); 5,161 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Brighton every year since 2025.
An estimated 5,110 Americans named Brighton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brighton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brighton?
#1,872 among boys’ names, 2025
Brighton fell from #1,210 in 2015 to #1,872 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 79.3 to 49.2 per million.
255 babies in 2015, the peak
Brighton peaked in 2015, when 255 babies were given it (152 boys, #1,210 among boys’ names). The 154 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 60% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,517 | 84 | #1,872 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,157 | 78 | #1,986 |
| 2023 | 85 | #2,215 | 84 | #1,877 |
| 2022 | 100 | #1,963 | 104 | #1,654 |
| 2021 | 109 | #1,842 | 125 | #1,442 |
| 2020 | 130 | #1,609 | 95 | #1,674 |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,702 | 108 | #1,550 |
| 2018 | 131 | #1,624 | 118 | #1,468 |
| 2017 | 142 | #1,545 | 94 | #1,683 |
| 2016 | 101 | #1,974 | 125 | #1,401 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 103 | #1,951 | 152 | #1,210 |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,010 | 153 | #1,203 |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,036 | 147 | #1,221 |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,429 | 157 | #1,163 |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,456 | 138 | #1,252 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,811 | 120 | #1,391 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,571 | 124 | #1,378 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,483 | 128 | #1,344 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,060 | 118 | #1,387 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,938 | 120 | #1,352 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,370 | 113 | #1,333 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,404 | 87 | #1,528 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,433 | 65 | #1,815 |
| 2002 | 32 | #3,989 | 39 | #2,507 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,333 | 38 | #2,521 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,194 | 33 | #2,741 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,940 | 51 | #1,900 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,505 | 46 | #2,038 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,915 | 33 | #2,453 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,655 | 24 | #3,033 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,359 | 29 | #2,557 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,471 | 20 | #3,334 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,741 | 11 | #5,039 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,560 | 8 | #6,193 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,689 | 12 | #4,512 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,357 | 5 | #8,262 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,626 | 6 | #7,052 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,357 | 10 | #4,480 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,194 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,437 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,565 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Brighton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,161 Americans recorded as Brighton, 42% are girls and 58% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brighton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brighton, and how old are they?
5,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,161 Americans ever recorded as Brighton. The median Brighton alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 3,850 people named Brighton (1,513 women and girls, 2,337 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,029 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 225 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,820 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Brighton born?
The states with the most babies named Brighton are Texas, Utah and California, with 80% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #2,115 | 0.8× |
| Utah | 14 | #519 | 7.1× |
| California | 7 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,880 | 0.5× |
| Kansas | 5 | #603 | 0.4× |
Where Brighton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brighton is most over-represented in Utah: since 1983 it was given 7.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Brighton with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,424 babies since 1880, Brighton is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 154 of their 154 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brighton
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Brighton and names like it
- Compare Brighton and BrightenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrighton peaked in 2015.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brighton since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Brighton.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brighton alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.