Brita
Brita was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,097 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,000 Americans named Brita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 33 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brita mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Brita is “a female given name, a medieval form of Birgitta”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,676, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
41 babies in 1981, the peak
Brita peaked in 1981, when 41 girls were given it, #2,379 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,676 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,675 | 4.2 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,030 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,912 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,673 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,739 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,418 | 5.1 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,735 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,176 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,720 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 10 | #10,248 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,528 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,174 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,893 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,858 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,647 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,607 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,759 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,907 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,751 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,037 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,904 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,845 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,291 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,069 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,851 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,790 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,901 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,261 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,282 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,142 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,744 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,694 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,349 | 14.8 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,379 | 24.6 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,876 | 18.7 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,253 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,106 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,842 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,825 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,168 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,876 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,354 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,558 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,811 | 15.0 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,056 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,798 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,469 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 18 | #2,974 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,155 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,762 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,258 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,642 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,362 | 13.2 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,280 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,100 | 7.9 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,636 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,955 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,164 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,041 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,787 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,709 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,633 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,527 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,420 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,360 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,279 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,371 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,810 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,031 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,071 | 4.6 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,328 | 4.6 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,099 | 5.3 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,157 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,506 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brita, and how old are they?
1,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,097 Americans ever recorded as Brita. The median Brita alive today is 44 years old; half are between 33 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 1,203 people named Brita (1,200 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,022 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Brita rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 146 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 293 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 39 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,064 babies since 1880, Brita is the second most given (22% of them).
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 Brita
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 Brita and names like it
- Compare Brita and BrittaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBrita peaked in 1981.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brita since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Brita: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Brita.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brita alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.