Briton
Briton was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,323 among boys’ names; 554 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Briton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Briton?
#12,323 among boys’ names, 2025
Briton fell from #8,131 in 2015 to #12,323 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 2.9 per million.
27 babies in 1991, the peak
Briton peaked in 1991, when 27 boys were given it, #2,547 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,323 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,425 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,306 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,976 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,841 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,674 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,131 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,779 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,791 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,622 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #9,751 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,735 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,127 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,807 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,674 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,972 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,843 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,602 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,940 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,588 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,066 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,415 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,345 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,437 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,146 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,218 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,315 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,563 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,900 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,273 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,547 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,617 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,462 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,482 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,566 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,016 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,428 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #3,946 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,988 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 10 | #3,995 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,580 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,371 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,436 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,909 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,949 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,700 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,299 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,111 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,500 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,997 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,298 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #3,995 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,200 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,795 | 5.2 |
| 1965 | 5 | #3,979 | 2.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,348 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Briton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Briton has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Briton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Briton, and how old are they?
An estimated 529 Americans named Briton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 20 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 584 people named Briton (82 women and girls, 502 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 522 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Briton?
Briton is a less common spelling of Britton: SSA has recorded 554 Briton and 8,293 Britton since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 14,775 babies since 1880, Briton is the fifth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 122 babies (4.1%), the fourth 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 Briton
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 Briton and names like it
- Compare Briton and BrittonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBriton peaked in 1991.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Briton.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Briton alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.