Brighton
#2,514 for girls in 2025, 70 births · #1,867 for boys in 2025, 84 births
Given to boys 58.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 157 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,013since 1983
Brighton over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,514 | 70 | #1,867 | 84 |
| 2024 | #2,150 | 88 | #1,985 | 78 |
| 2023 | #2,210 | 85 | #1,875 | 84 |
| 2022 | #1,961 | 100 | #1,652 | 104 |
| 2021 | #1,841 | 109 | #1,442 | 125 |
| 2020 | #1,608 | 130 | #1,673 | 95 |
| 2019 | #1,700 | 123 | #1,548 | 108 |
| 2018 | #1,623 | 131 | #1,465 | 118 |
| 2017 | #1,545 | 142 | #1,681 | 94 |
| 2016 | #1,972 | 101 | #1,399 | 125 |
| 2015 | #1,950 | 103 | #1,210 | 152 |
| 2014 | #2,010 | 98 | #1,201 | 153 |
| 2013 | #2,032 | 95 | #1,216 | 147 |
| 2012 | #2,426 | 76 | #1,161 | 157 |
| 2011 | #2,454 | 74 | #1,250 | 138 |
| 2010 | #2,803 | 62 | #1,390 | 120 |
| 2009 | #2,568 | 72 | #1,377 | 124 |
| 2008 | #3,478 | 47 | #1,343 | 128 |
| 2007 | #3,047 | 57 | #1,387 | 118 |
| 2006 | #3,919 | 38 | #1,350 | 120 |
| 2005 | #3,366 | 45 | #1,334 | 113 |
| 2004 | #4,387 | 31 | #1,530 | 87 |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 | #1,815 | 65 |
| 2002 | #3,978 | 32 | #2,504 | 39 |
| 2001 | #4,321 | 28 | #2,520 | 38 |
| 2000 | #4,185 | 29 | #2,736 | 33 |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 | #1,903 | 51 |
| 1998 | #4,492 | 24 | #2,040 | 46 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | #2,449 | 33 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #3,021 | 24 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1994 | #5,445 | 17 | #3,326 | 20 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #4,450 | 10 |
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| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | — | |
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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brighton! It came in at #5,484, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1987, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Brighton
- 118 spots since 2024 (#1,985 → #1,867)
- 194 spots since 2020 (#1,673 → #1,867)
- 657 spots since 2015 (#1,210 → #1,867)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2012 at #1,161 (157 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,082 boys born in 2012 were named Brighton (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,334 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.5% of all boys named Brighton (1,312) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 27 | #4,450 (1988) | #5,798 |
| 1990s | 239 | #1,903 (1999) | #3,902 |
| 2000s | 865 | #1,334 (2005) | #1,790 |
| 2010s | 1,312 | #1,161 (2012) | #1,352 |
| 2020s | 570 | #1,442 (2021) | #1,749 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brighton in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 73,623 of them was named Brighton, which outranked 72.9% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,366Ysabella25
- #4,366Yusra25
- #4,366Zariya25
- #4,492Brighton24
- #4,492Alixandria24
- #4,492Allexus24
- #4,492Alvina24
- #4,636Abbygayle23
- #4,636Adelaida23
- #4,636Aeris23
Tied with 143 names at #4,492; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 41,551 of them was named Brighton, which outranked 82.0% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,012Raleigh47
- #2,012Umar47
- #2,012Vivek47
- #2,040Brighton46
- #2,040Bladimir46
- #2,040Chayton46
- #2,040Christan46
- #2,068Aleczander45
- #2,068Boyd45
- #2,068Carey45
Tied with 27 names at #2,040; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.