Brittan
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #11,169 · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to girls 64.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 36 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 879since 1974
Brittan 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 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 | — | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #7,217 | 17 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 | #4,631 | 18 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #5,586 | 21 | #5,877 | 12 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #5,174 | 22 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | #5,920 | 11 |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #4,238 | 26 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #4,184 | 25 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #3,969 | 26 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #3,704 | 29 | #4,537 | 13 |
| 1993 | #4,100 | 25 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #3,419 | 32 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #3,813 | 27 | #3,058 | 20 |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | #4,017 | 13 |
| 1988 | #3,393 | 28 | #2,682 | 21 |
| 1987 | #3,743 | 23 | #2,559 | 21 |
| 1986 | #2,682 | 36 | #2,429 | 22 |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 | #2,710 | 18 |
| 1984 | #3,423 | 24 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #3,555 | 22 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,532 | 23 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | — | #4,582 | 7 | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | — | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brittan! It came in at #8,775, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1977, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Brittan
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 1986 at #2,682 (36 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 47,654 girls born in 1986 were named Brittan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,573 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- 29.5% of all girls named Brittan (259) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1977, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 36 | #5,751 (1979) | #7,546 |
| 1980s | 222 | #2,682 (1986) | #4,093 |
| 1990s | 259 | #3,419 (1992) | #4,106 |
| 2000s | 192 | #4,649 (2000) | #6,611 |
| 2010s | 134 | #5,710 (2012) | #9,063 |
| 2020s | 36 | #7,559 (2020) | #10,794 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brittan in 1974
Top girls' names in 1974
More about 1974
girls
1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 293,507 of them was named Brittan, which outranked 14.4% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,472 names at #8,775; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.