Britnee — girls' name
1,690 babies named Britnee in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
51% of everyone ever named Britnee was born in this single decade.
146 babies were named Britnee in 1988 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Britnee
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,690 babies named Britnee between 1978 and 2014, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Britnee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 146 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Britnee performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 860 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Britnee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 196 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Britnee in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Britnee 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 1,690 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.
Britnee at a glance
Last recorded 2014Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Britnee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–1978
- Peak year (1988)
- 146
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2014.
1,690 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1988 with 146 births in a single year.
Britnee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 860 births that decade — 51% of Britnee's all-time total
Britnee decade highlights
- Peak decade 860 births
- Runner-up 559 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Britnee's strongest decade
860 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 51% of all-time use.
Britnee by state
Where Britnee concentrates geographically — total births since 1978
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 196 | 11.6% |
| #2 | Texas | | 119 | 7.0% |
| #3 | Florida | | 39 | 2.3% |
| #4 | Michigan | | 31 | 1.8% |
| #5 | Pennsylvania | | 30 | 1.8% |
| #6 | Washington | | 29 | 1.7% |
| #7 | Utah | | 28 | 1.7% |
| #8 | Ohio | | 18 | 1.1% |
196 of 1,690 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 18 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 11.6% of nationwide
- Texas 7.0% of nationwide
- Florida 2.3% of nationwide
- Michigan 1.8% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 1.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 18 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 11.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
Britnee appears in 18 states. Explore state details →
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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, 1978–2014 (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.