Britany

Where Britany comes from

Britany hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #7,995 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Peak, #454
    534 babies named Britany — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #844.
  4. 1996
    Britany van Lange born
    Guyanese swimmer (* 1996)
  5. 2001
    Britany Anderson born
    Jamaican athletics competitor
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Britany Anderson · Jamaican athletics competitor, born 2001
  • Britany van Lange · Guyanese swimmer (* 1996), born 1996
  • Britany Miller · American basketball player, born 1987

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.