Britten
Britten was last recorded in 2021, when 10 babies were given it; 883 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Britten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Britten?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,681, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 2001, the peak
Britten peaked in 2001, when 32 babies were given it (25 boys, #3,421 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | under 5 | 10 | #7,681 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,535 | 8 | #8,859 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,720 | 7 | #9,821 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,313 | 11 | #7,168 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 12 | #6,784 | |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,918 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,019 | 9 | #8,237 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,944 | 14 | #5,965 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,742 | 11 | #7,130 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,536 | 10 | #7,579 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9 | #11,420 | 7 | #9,838 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,819 | 7 | #10,014 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,094 | 14 | #6,106 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,824 | 12 | #6,671 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,606 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 14 | #5,603 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 18 | #4,620 | |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,651 | 18 | #4,438 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,879 | 10 | #6,589 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,275 | 25 | #3,421 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,023 | 17 | #4,416 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,754 | 11 | #5,701 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,470 | 11 | #5,509 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,024 | 10 | #5,695 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,447 | 15 | #4,198 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,689 | 11 | #5,160 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,727 | 9 | #5,917 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,564 | 14 | #4,247 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,577 | 13 | #4,343 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,439 | 17 | #3,472 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,364 | 19 | #3,179 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,123 | 11 | #4,547 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,364 | 16 | #3,220 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,886 | 12 | #3,746 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,636 | 14 | #3,283 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,444 | 16 | #2,954 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,482 | 13 | #3,289 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,910 | 9 | #4,171 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,969 | 8 | #4,646 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,926 | 5 | #6,391 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,852 | 7 | #4,995 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,756 | 7 | #4,906 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,023 | 12 | #3,235 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,562 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,096 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,096 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,982 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,564 | 12 | #2,867 |
| 1971 | under 5 | 6 | #4,447 |
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 Britten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 883 Americans recorded as Britten, 40% are girls and 60% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Britten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Britten, and how old are they?
An estimated 856 Americans named Britten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 19 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 857 people named Britten (370 women and girls, 487 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 844 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,366 babies since 1880, Britten is the third most given (7.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 99 babies recorded by SSA was a Britten (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Britten
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 Britten and names like it
- Compare Britten and BrittonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBritten peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Britten since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Britten.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Britten alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.