Brita — girls' name

What the Data Says About Brita

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,097 babies named Brita between 1916 and 2021, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Brita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 41 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brita performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 262 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Brita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 62 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Brita in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brita 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 1,097 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.