Britta
Britta was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,556 among girls’ names; 3,682 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,500 Americans named Britta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 26 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Britta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Britta mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Britta is “a female given name from Swedish”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Britta?
#7,556 among girls’ names, 2025
Britta fell from #2,969 in 2015 to #7,556 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 32.5 to 8.7 per million.
191 babies in 1986, the peak
Britta peaked in 1986, when 191 girls were given it, #868 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,556 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,826 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,887 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,337 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,030 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,787 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,359 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,864 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,314 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,721 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,969 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,935 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,584 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,932 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,556 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,829 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,502 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,560 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,706 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,865 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,853 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,103 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,350 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,082 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,556 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,276 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 44 | #2,996 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,073 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,044 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 66 | #2,085 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,879 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 78 | #1,824 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 108 | #1,472 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 83 | #1,757 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 117 | #1,372 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 150 | #1,142 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 138 | #1,180 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 117 | #1,255 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 151 | #1,026 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 191 | #868 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 78 | #1,552 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,660 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,668 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,585 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 74 | #1,582 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,836 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,921 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 55 | #1,827 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 53 | #1,879 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 55 | #1,729 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,061 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,711 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,573 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 40 | #1,991 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,256 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 50 | #1,785 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,026 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,368 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 35 | #1,980 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,954 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,300 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,603 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,954 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,543 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,074 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,745 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,053 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,222 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,719 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,042 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,914 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,718 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,421 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,788 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,372 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,396 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,162 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,248 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,698 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,008 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,980 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,319 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,867 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,111 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,213 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,507 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Britta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Britta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Britta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Britta, and how old are they?
3,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,682 Americans ever recorded as Britta. The median Britta alive today is 37 years old; half are between 26 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 3,836 people named Britta (3,836 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,397 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Britta rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 176 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 669 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,590 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 594 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 455 |
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 Britta born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #860 | 8.1× |
Where Britta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Britta is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1916 it was given 8.1 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 Britta 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,127 babies since 1880, Britta is the most given (72% of them).
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 Britta
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 Britta and names like it
- Compare Britta and BritaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBritta peaked in 1986.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Britta since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Britta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Britta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Britta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.