Britlyn — girls' name
137 babies named Britlyn in U.S. Social Security records since 1984, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
39% of everyone ever named Britlyn was born in this single decade.
11 babies were named Britlyn in 2006 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Britlyn
The Social Security Administration has registered 137 babies named Britlyn between 1984 and 2018, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Britlyn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 11 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Britlyn performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 53 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Britlyn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Britlyn in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Britlyn 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 137 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.
Britlyn at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Britlyn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–1984
- Peak year (2006)
- 11
- Annual births at peak — across 35 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
137 total births across 35 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2006 with 11 births in a single year.
Britlyn by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 53 births that decade — 39% of Britlyn's all-time total
Britlyn decade highlights
- Peak decade 53 births
- Runner-up 43 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Britlyn's strongest decade
53 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Britlyn by state
Where Britlyn concentrates geographically — total births since 1984
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 3.6% |
5 of 137 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 3.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 3.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1984–2018 (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.