Brittan
Brittan was last recorded in 2023, when 14 babies were given it; 1,359 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,330 Americans named Brittan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brittan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brittan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,360, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
58 babies in 1986, the peak
Brittan peaked in 1986, when 58 babies were given it (36 girls, #2,683 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | #11,360 | 6 | #11,026 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,478 | 6 | #11,071 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,443 | 5 | #12,426 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,621 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,129 | 5 | #12,427 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,098 | 5 | #12,446 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,891 | 5 | #12,557 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,314 | 6 | #10,942 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,339 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,128 | 8 | #8,886 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | #11,172 | 9 | #8,202 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,740 | 6 | #10,977 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,861 | 11 | #7,072 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,269 | 11 | #7,136 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,391 | 9 | #8,387 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,581 | 8 | #9,110 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,645 | 12 | #6,670 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,976 | 13 | #6,144 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,466 | 18 | #4,654 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,896 | 10 | #7,034 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,616 | 12 | #5,916 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,177 | 7 | #8,569 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,213 | 14 | #5,158 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,670 | 11 | #5,958 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,326 | 19 | #3,853 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,250 | 13 | #4,906 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,525 | 9 | #6,147 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,194 | 7 | #7,225 |
| 1995 | 26 | #3,985 | 16 | #3,873 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,706 | 13 | #4,564 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,107 | 15 | #4,034 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,428 | 14 | #4,125 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,824 | 18 | #3,338 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,817 | 20 | #3,062 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,682 | 13 | #4,038 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,397 | 21 | #2,692 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,757 | 21 | #2,567 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,683 | 22 | #2,433 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,143 | 18 | #2,726 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,435 | 11 | #3,731 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,567 | 6 | #5,570 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,946 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,539 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,961 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,791 | 7 | #4,905 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,677 | 6 | #5,135 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,644 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,275 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,559 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,911 | under 5 |
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 Brittan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,359 Americans recorded as Brittan, 65% are girls and 35% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brittan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brittan, and how old are they?
1,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,359 Americans ever recorded as Brittan. The median Brittan alive today is 29 years old; half are between 20 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,215 people named Brittan (796 women and girls, 419 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,286 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 63 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 589 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 498 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 176 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,363 babies since 1880, Brittan is the most given (58% 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 Brittan
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 Brittan and names like it
- Compare Brittan and BrittynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBrittan peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brittan since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Brittan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brittan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.