Brit — boys' name

What the Data Says About Brit

The Social Security Administration has registered 628 babies named Brit between 1921 and 2020, spanning 100 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brit currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Brit is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 147 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brit performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 127 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Brit shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Brit in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brit 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 628 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.