Britton
Britton is given to both girls and boys: 24 girls and 46 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,270 among girls’ names and #2,770 among boys’, #4,472 among all names counting both); 8,293 Americans have been recorded with it since 1896 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,680 Americans named Britton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 15 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Britton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Britton mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Britton is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Britton?
#2,770 among boys’ names, 2025
Britton fell from #1,540 in 2015 to #2,770 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 55.3 to 26.9 per million.
216 babies in 2011, the peak
Britton peaked in 2011, when 216 babies were given it (113 boys, #1,450 among boys’ names). The 70 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 32% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,270 | 46 | #2,770 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,827 | 42 | #2,966 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,378 | 56 | #2,418 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,338 | 56 | #2,471 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,628 | 65 | #2,174 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,456 | 83 | #1,800 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,237 | 88 | #1,765 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,254 | 102 | #1,607 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,569 | 93 | #1,696 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,807 | 106 | #1,556 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,358 | 106 | #1,540 |
| 2014 | 99 | #2,000 | 104 | #1,539 |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,346 | 99 | #1,568 |
| 2012 | 88 | #2,150 | 115 | #1,440 |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,929 | 113 | #1,450 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,214 | 142 | #1,242 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,413 | 132 | #1,315 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,788 | 125 | #1,361 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,117 | 141 | #1,247 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,481 | 151 | #1,133 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,656 | 128 | #1,232 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,636 | 112 | #1,317 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,601 | 122 | #1,204 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,197 | 107 | #1,267 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,113 | 121 | #1,141 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,419 | 129 | #1,085 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,380 | 116 | #1,130 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,251 | 130 | #1,036 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,721 | 114 | #1,107 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,069 | 114 | #1,066 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,891 | 122 | #1,003 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,750 | 118 | #1,018 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,538 | 112 | #1,038 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,250 | 129 | #941 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,199 | 133 | #906 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,013 | 121 | #936 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,407 | 131 | #875 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,807 | 118 | #876 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,031 | 136 | #792 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,561 | 108 | #873 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,806 | 117 | #823 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,152 | 107 | #848 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,074 | 93 | #916 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,708 | 97 | #908 |
| 1981 | 29 | #2,996 | 95 | #922 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,424 | 86 | #968 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,920 | 67 | #1,089 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,208 | 62 | #1,111 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,495 | 58 | #1,145 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,694 | 54 | #1,165 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,648 | 47 | #1,240 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,708 | 51 | #1,151 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,385 | 51 | #1,151 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,412 | 50 | #1,152 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,567 | 59 | #1,058 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,520 | 63 | #1,025 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,632 | 54 | #1,050 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,812 | 42 | #1,166 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 38 | #1,219 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 35 | #1,283 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 31 | #1,387 | |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,079 | 21 | #1,735 |
| 1963 | under 5 | 29 | #1,459 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 16 | #2,045 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 23 | #1,692 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 24 | #1,658 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 16 | #2,043 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 26 | #1,533 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 20 | #1,795 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 13 | #2,278 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 18 | #1,849 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 8 | #2,975 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 16 | #1,967 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 11 | #2,392 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 13 | #2,146 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 5 | #3,751 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 12 | #2,236 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 7 | #3,033 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 19 | #1,740 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 8 | #2,720 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 6 | #3,023 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 14 | #1,897 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 11 | #2,293 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 17 | #1,740 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 6 | #3,181 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 9 | #2,503 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 10 | #2,304 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 7 | #2,895 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 9 | #2,509 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 7 | #2,893 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 5 | #3,711 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 9 | #2,581 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 9 | #2,563 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 8 | #2,876 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 10 | #2,498 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 11 | #2,460 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 9 | #2,792 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 8 | #3,103 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 10 | #2,720 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 5 | #4,277 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 8 | #3,300 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 8 | #3,203 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 10 | #2,828 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 10 | #2,826 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 13 | #2,352 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 8 | #3,142 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 10 | #2,714 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 8 | #2,986 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 11 | #2,400 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,451 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 11 | #1,988 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 6 | #993 |
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 Britton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,293 Americans recorded as Britton, 24% are girls and 76% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Britton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Britton, and how old are they?
7,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 8,293 Americans ever recorded as Britton. The median Britton alive today is 26 years old; half are between 15 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 6,739 people named Britton (1,702 women and girls, 5,037 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,303 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 34 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 215 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 960 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,680 |
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 Britton born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,778 | 1.1× |
Where Britton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Britton is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.6 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 boys’ 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 Britton 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 15,408 babies since 1880, Britton is the most given (54% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 128 babies (55%), 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 Britton
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1890-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Alika | 1,205 | |
| Bradlee | 3,870 | |
| Corinthian | 1,009 | |
| Ramsey | 8,861 |
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 Britton and names like it
- Compare Britton and BrytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBritton peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Britton since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Britton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Britton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.