Britian — boys' name
82 babies named Britian in U.S. Social Security records since 1985, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
44% of everyone ever named Britian was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Britian in 1989 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Britian
The Social Security Administration has registered 82 babies named Britian between 1985 and 2017, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Britian currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Britian is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10 additional births since 2001.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Britian performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 36 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Britian shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Britian 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 82 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.
Britian at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Britian popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1985
- Peak year (1989)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
82 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1989 with 14 births in a single year.
Britian popularity over time — girls
10 total births recorded since 2001 (Britian as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Britian accounts for 11% of total recorded use across both genders.
Britian by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 36 births that decade — 44% of Britian's all-time total
Britian decade highlights
- Peak decade 36 births
- Runner-up 22 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Britian's strongest decade
36 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1985–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.