Britton — #2949 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Britton

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,291 babies named Britton between 1896 and 2024, spanning 129 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Britton currently holds the #2949 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 151 babies received it in a single year. Britton is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,931 additional births since 1964.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Britton performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,268 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Britton shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 705 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Britton in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Britton 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 6,291 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.