British — #13753 US unisex name

What the Data Says About British

The Social Security Administration has registered 294 babies named British between 1969 and 2024, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, British currently holds the #13753 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 21 babies received it in a single year. British is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 31 additional births since 1987.

Decade-level aggregation shows that British performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 103 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, British shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list British in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for British 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 294 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.