Brittany
Brittany was given to 281 girls in 2025, #928 among girls’ names; 361,751 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 353,000 Americans named Brittany and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 32 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brittany by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brittany mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brittany is “a female given name transferred from the place name, of 1980s and 1990s American usage.”
Inherited from Middle English Bretany, Brytany, itself borrowed from Medieval Latin Britannia, applied to Brittany from at least the 6th century, and reinforced by Middle French Bretagne. See Britannia for more. Doublet of Britain and Britannia.
[ˈbɹɪʔn̩.ni]
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brittany?
#928 among girls’ names, 2025
Brittany fell from #462 in 2015 to #928 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.39 to 0.17 per 1,000.
38,008 babies in 1989, the peak
Brittany peaked in 1989, when 38,008 babies were given it (37,792 girls, #3 among girls’ names). The 281 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 281 | #928 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 356 | #791 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 311 | #858 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 333 | #841 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 284 | #936 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 265 | #961 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 320 | #843 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 307 | #880 | 0.18 |
| 2017 | 402 | #714 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 573 | #546 | 0.32 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 689 | #462 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 698 | #458 | 0.39 |
| 2013 | 724 | #421 | 0.41 |
| 2012 | 769 | #407 | 0.44 |
| 2011 | 750 | #419 | 0.43 |
| 2010 | 732 | #427 | 0.41 |
| 2009 | 672 | #461 | 0.37 |
| 2008 | 776 | #414 | 0.41 |
| 2007 | 918 | #352 | 0.48 |
| 2006 | 1,025 | #320 | 0.54 |
| 2005 | 1,193 | #277 | 0.65 |
| 2004 | 1,356 | #240 | 0.74 |
| 2003 | 1,578 | #209 | 0.86 |
| 2002 | 1,937 | #170 | 1.1 |
| 2001 | 2,929 | #115 | 1.6 |
| 2000 | 5,185 | #60 | 2.9 |
| 1999 | 7,942 | #35 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 9,844 | #25 | 5.6 |
| 1997 | 11,529 | #20 | 6.6 |
| 1996 | 13,797 | #14 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 16,477 | #8 | 9.4 |
| 1994 | 18,900 | #7 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 21,725 | #6 | 12.0 |
| 1992 | 24,983 | #4 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 29,093 | #3 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 36,536 | #3 | 19.2 |
| 1989 | 37,792 | #3 | 20.5 |
| 1988 | 26,816 | #6 | 15.1 |
| 1987 | 22,231 | #7 | 12.8 |
| 1986 | 20,313 | #8 | 11.8 |
| 1985 | 15,437 | #17 | 9.0 |
| 1984 | 7,665 | #41 | 4.6 |
| 1983 | 4,377 | #64 | 2.6 |
| 1982 | 3,102 | #94 | 1.8 |
| 1981 | 1,714 | #165 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 1,407 | #190 | 0.85 |
| 1979 | 794 | #300 | 0.49 |
| 1978 | 630 | #344 | 0.41 |
| 1977 | 488 | #419 | 0.32 |
| 1976 | 351 | #508 | 0.24 |
| 1975 | 332 | #527 | 0.23 |
| 1974 | 244 | #633 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 219 | #683 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 199 | #719 | 0.13 |
| 1971 | 149 | #890 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,369 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 62 | #1,499 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,094 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,222 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,277 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,225 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,865 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,351 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brittany a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brittany has been given almost only to girls: 1,078 boys in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brittany: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brittany, and how old are they?
353,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 361,751 Americans ever recorded as Brittany. The median Brittany alive today is 35 years old; half are between 32 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 302,717 people named Brittany (302,372 women and girls, 345 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 353,546 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,810 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 294,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 48,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,510 |
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 Brittany born?
The states with the most babies named Brittany are Texas, Florida and California, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 51 | #616 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 26 | #656 | 1.2× |
| California | 20 | #1,249 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 19 | #412 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 16 | #476 | 0.7× |
| New York | 14 | #1,038 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 11 | #865 | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 9 | #776 | 1.3× |
| Maryland | 9 | #557 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,077 | 1.6× |
Where Brittany is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brittany is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1963 it was given 1.6 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 Brittany 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 512,540 babies since 1880, Brittany is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 281 of their 464 babies (61%), again the most given.
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 Brittany
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 Brittany and names like it
- Compare Brittany and BrittneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBrittany peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brittany since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Brittany: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Brittany.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brittany alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.