Britten — boys' name

What the Data Says About Britten

The Social Security Administration has registered 529 babies named Britten between 1971 and 2021, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Britten currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 25 babies received it in a single year. Britten is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 354 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Britten performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 145 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Britten shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Britten in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Britten in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 529 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.