Brittain
Brittain was last recorded in 2025, when 6 babies were given it; 712 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brittain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brittain?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,995, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1991, the peak
Brittain peaked in 1991, when 28 babies were given it (15 boys, #3,826 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,494 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,905 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 6 | #10,995 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,965 | 6 | #10,985 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,719 | 6 | #10,977 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,955 | 6 | #10,975 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,700 | 6 | #10,941 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,046 | 7 | #9,708 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,071 | 5 | #12,356 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,942 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 9 | #11,427 | 10 | #7,623 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,836 | 5 | #12,540 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,559 | 7 | #9,837 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,578 | 10 | #7,759 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,010 | 6 | #11,248 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,796 | 7 | #9,910 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,605 | 8 | #8,828 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,247 | 5 | #11,691 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,986 | 12 | #6,184 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,623 | 10 | #6,786 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 12 | #5,766 | |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,242 | 9 | #6,995 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,418 | 11 | #5,957 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 6 | #8,832 | |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,305 | 16 | #4,223 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 14 | #4,474 | |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,656 | 10 | #5,576 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,993 | 9 | #5,975 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,692 | 16 | #3,923 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,681 | 15 | #4,033 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,825 | 10 | #5,274 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,642 | 15 | #3,826 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 18 | #3,319 | |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,019 | 12 | #4,294 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,702 | 11 | #4,185 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,085 | 8 | #5,023 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,837 | 14 | #3,282 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,431 | 8 | #4,745 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,875 | 9 | #4,248 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,390 | 5 | #6,358 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,361 | 8 | #4,645 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,364 | 7 | #5,012 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,573 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,165 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,803 | 5 | #5,950 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 9 | #3,591 | |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,562 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 7 | #3,403 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Brittain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 712 Americans recorded as Brittain, 45% are girls and 55% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brittain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brittain, and how old are they?
An estimated 692 Americans named Brittain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 17 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 710 people named Brittain (331 women and girls, 379 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 679 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 11,623 babies since 1880, Brittain is the fourth most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 94 babies (6.4%), the third 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 Brittain
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 Brittain and names like it
- Compare Brittain and BrittonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBrittain peaked in 1991.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Brittain.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brittain alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.