Britain
Britain is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 11 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,136 among girls’ names and #7,265 among boys’, #11,050 among all names counting both); 1,533 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Britain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Britain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Britain?
#7,265 among boys’ names, 2025
Britain fell from #3,522 in 2015 to #7,265 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.2 to 6.4 per million.
70 babies in 2014, the peak
Britain peaked in 2014, when 70 babies were given it (39 boys, #2,937 among boys’ names). The 18 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,136 | 11 | #7,265 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,299 | 8 | #9,114 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,359 | 7 | #9,895 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,539 | 13 | #6,535 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,075 | 13 | #6,375 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,051 | 13 | #6,345 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,015 | 20 | #4,823 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,566 | 24 | #4,243 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,928 | 22 | #4,484 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,308 | 31 | #3,537 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,314 | 31 | #3,522 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,563 | 39 | #2,937 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,035 | 31 | #3,416 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,229 | 28 | #3,723 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,943 | 30 | #3,522 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,959 | 30 | #3,542 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,139 | 27 | #3,843 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,789 | 23 | #4,280 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,789 | 26 | #3,912 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,402 | 17 | #5,098 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,050 | 15 | #5,315 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,831 | 16 | #5,038 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,107 | 13 | #5,591 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,924 | 15 | #4,934 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,033 | 10 | #6,511 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,221 | 18 | #4,223 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,608 | 19 | #3,852 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,377 | 12 | #5,182 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,020 | 6 | #8,256 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,193 | 13 | #4,634 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,583 | 22 | #3,104 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,727 | 24 | #2,949 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,563 | 19 | #3,376 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,117 | 16 | #3,767 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,683 | 13 | #4,254 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,362 | 12 | #4,437 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,569 | 21 | #2,913 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,315 | 10 | #4,481 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,959 | 10 | #4,275 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,835 | 21 | #2,518 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,442 | 14 | #3,232 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,256 | 8 | #4,606 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,569 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,683 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,600 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 9 | #4,177 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,164 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,675 | 7 | #4,608 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,802 | 5 | #5,948 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,274 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 6 | #4,565 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 6 | #4,297 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,574 |
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 Britain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,533 Americans recorded as Britain, 46% are girls and 54% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Britain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Britain, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,533 Americans ever recorded as Britain. The median Britain alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,291 people named Britain (622 women and girls, 669 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,397 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 56 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 338 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 602 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 507 |
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 12,177 babies since 1880, Britain is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 99 babies (18%), again the second 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 Britain
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 Britain and names like it
- Compare Britain and BrittonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBritain peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Britain since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Britain.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Britain alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.