Britney
Britney was given to 134 girls in 2025, #1,571 among girls’ names; 35,668 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 35,000 Americans named Britney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 24 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Britney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Britney mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Britney is “a female given name transferred from the place name, variant of Brittany.”
/ˈbɹɪtni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Britney?
#1,571 among girls’ names, 2025
Britney fell from #1,281 in 2015 to #1,571 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.08 per 1,000.
2,518 babies in 1989, the peak
Britney peaked in 1989, when 2,518 babies were given it (2,494 girls, #118 among girls’ names). The 134 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 134 | #1,571 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 171 | #1,336 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 211 | #1,152 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 149 | #1,475 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 115 | #1,771 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 100 | #1,910 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 93 | #2,045 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 116 | #1,762 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 138 | #1,580 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 160 | #1,441 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 190 | #1,281 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 214 | #1,156 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 314 | #838 | 0.18 |
| 2012 | 292 | #899 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 288 | #906 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 289 | #904 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 387 | #742 | 0.21 |
| 2008 | 441 | #688 | 0.23 |
| 2007 | 531 | #565 | 0.28 |
| 2006 | 668 | #474 | 0.35 |
| 2005 | 717 | #429 | 0.39 |
| 2004 | 911 | #351 | 0.50 |
| 2003 | 967 | #323 | 0.53 |
| 2002 | 1,345 | #235 | 0.75 |
| 2001 | 1,640 | #198 | 0.91 |
| 2000 | 2,404 | #137 | 1.3 |
| 1999 | 1,495 | #205 | 0.84 |
| 1998 | 572 | #451 | 0.32 |
| 1997 | 621 | #422 | 0.36 |
| 1996 | 699 | #380 | 0.40 |
| 1995 | 792 | #334 | 0.45 |
| 1994 | 1,067 | #261 | 0.60 |
| 1993 | 1,177 | #239 | 0.65 |
| 1992 | 1,567 | #194 | 0.85 |
| 1991 | 1,784 | #167 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 2,294 | #136 | 1.2 |
| 1989 | 2,494 | #118 | 1.4 |
| 1988 | 2,084 | #138 | 1.2 |
| 1987 | 1,585 | #177 | 0.91 |
| 1986 | 1,404 | #189 | 0.82 |
| 1985 | 938 | #267 | 0.55 |
| 1984 | 464 | #449 | 0.28 |
| 1983 | 357 | #532 | 0.21 |
| 1982 | 278 | #642 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 217 | #760 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 184 | #845 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 131 | #1,056 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 79 | #1,454 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 80 | #1,404 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 63 | #1,588 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,234 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,299 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,311 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,826 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,803 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,087 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,023 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,804 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Britney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Britney has been given almost only to girls: 83 boys in 58 years of records.
Girls and boys named Britney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Britney, and how old are they?
35,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 35,668 Americans ever recorded as Britney. The median Britney alive today is 32 years old; half are between 24 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 31,343 people named Britney (31,249 women and girls, 94 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 34,280 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 680 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 18,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,090 |
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).
Where are babies named Britney born?
The states with the most babies named Britney are Florida, Texas and California, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 23 | #717 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 15 | #1,547 | 1.1× |
| California | 13 | #1,665 | 0.9× |
| New York | 7 | #1,682 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #909 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,309 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,206 | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #859 | 0.5× |
Where Britney is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Britney is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1968 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Britney with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 140,620 babies since 1880, Britney is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 134 of their 189 babies (71%), the most given that year.
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 Britney
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 Britney and names like it
- Compare Britney and BrittneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBritney peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Britney since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Britney: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Britney.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Britney alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.