Brittany
#928 for girls in 2025, 281 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #5,813
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1989 · 37,792 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 19 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 360,673since 1963
Brittany over time
Rank among girls' names. 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #928 | 281 | — | |
| 2024 | #791 | 356 | — | |
| 2023 | #857 | 311 | — | |
| 2022 | #840 | 333 | — | |
| 2021 | #934 | 284 | — | |
| 2020 | #960 | 265 | — | |
| 2019 | #843 | 320 | — | |
| 2018 | #879 | 307 | — | |
| 2017 | #714 | 402 | — | |
| 2016 | #546 | 573 | — | |
| 2015 | #462 | 689 | — | |
| 2014 | #458 | 698 | — | |
| 2013 | #421 | 724 | — | |
| 2012 | #407 | 769 | — | |
| 2011 | #419 | 750 | — | |
| 2010 | #427 | 732 | — | |
| 2009 | #461 | 672 | — | |
| 2008 | #414 | 776 | — | |
| 2007 | #352 | 918 | — | |
| 2006 | #320 | 1,025 | — | |
| 2005 | #277 | 1,193 | — | |
| 2004 | #240 | 1,356 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #209 | 1,578 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #170 | 1,937 | — | |
| 2001 | #115 | 2,929 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #60 | 5,185 | — | |
| 1999 | #35 | 7,942 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #25 | 9,844 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #20 | 11,529 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #14 | 13,797 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #8 | 16,477 | #2,210 | 36 |
| 1994 | #7 | 18,900 | #2,123 | 38 |
| 1993 | #6 | 21,725 | #2,209 | 35 |
| 1992 | #4 | 24,983 | #1,844 | 44 |
| 1991 | #3 | 29,093 | #1,768 | 45 |
| 1990 | #3 | 36,536 | #995 | 112 |
| 1989 | #3 | 37,792 | #678 | 216 |
| 1988 | #6 | 26,816 | #961 | 100 |
| 1987 | #7 | 22,231 | #1,009 | 88 |
| 1986 | #8 | 20,313 | #1,075 | 75 |
| 1985 | #17 | 15,437 | #1,214 | 61 |
| 1984 | #41 | 7,665 | #1,399 | 46 |
| 1983 | #64 | 4,377 | #2,017 | 26 |
| 1982 | #94 | 3,102 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1981 | #165 | 1,714 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #190 | 1,407 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #300 | 794 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #344 | 630 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #419 | 488 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #508 | 351 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #527 | 332 | — | |
| 1974 | #633 | 244 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #682 | 219 | — | |
| 1972 | #718 | 199 | — | |
| 1971 | #889 | 149 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,369 | 76 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,499 | 62 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,091 | 33 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,266 | 15 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brittany! It came in at #5,296, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1964, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Brittany is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Maryland#501 · 1 in 2,029
- Virginia#623 · 1 in 2,845
- North Carolina#645 · 1 in 3,116
- Massachusetts#655 · 1 in 3,409
- Ohio#706 · 1 in 3,685
Best ever in a state: #1 in Kentucky, 1989.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #501 | 11 | 1 in 2,029 |
| Virginia | #623 | 12 | 1 in 2,845 |
| North Carolina | #645 | 14 | 1 in 3,116 |
| Massachusetts | #655 | 7 | 1 in 3,409 |
| Ohio | #706 | 13 | 1 in 3,685 |
| Texas | #745 | 40 | 1 in 3,824 |
| New Jersey | #767 | 9 | 1 in 3,871 |
| Tennessee | #779 | 8 | 1 in 3,796 |
| Florida | #823 | 18 | 1 in 4,470 |
| Colorado | #857 | 5 | 1 in 4,309 |
| California | #896 | 33 | 1 in 5,279 |
| New York | #957 | 15 | 1 in 5,305 |
| Indiana | #1,014 | 5 | 1 in 5,603 |
| Arizona | #1,054 | 5 | 1 in 5,532 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,104 | 7 | 1 in 6,907 |
| Illinois | #1,190 | 7 | 1 in 6,965 |
| Michigan | #1,218 | 5 | 1 in 7,570 |
| Georgia | #1,279 | 6 | 1 in 7,415 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Brittany
- 137 spots since 2024 (#791 → #928)
- 32 spots since 2020 (#960 → #928)
- 466 spots since 2015 (#462 → #928)
- Biggest jump: 480 spots in 1971 (#1,369 → #889)
- Biggest drop: 168 spots in 2017 (#546 → #714)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1989 at #3 (37,792 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: 10 yrs · run 1986–1995
- Top 100: 19 yrs · run 1982–2000
- Top 1,000: 55 yrs · run 1971–2025
- Highest: 1 in 49 girls born in 1989 were named Brittany (2.0%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,720 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 52.9% of all girls named Brittany (190,826) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 148 | #1,499 (1969) | #3,762 |
| 1970s | 3,482 | #300 (1979) | #639 |
| 1980s | 140,854 | #3 (1989) | #60 |
| 1990s | 190,826 | #3 (1990) | #13 |
| 2000s | 17,569 | #60 (2000) | #262 |
| 2010s | 5,964 | #407 (2012) | #558 |
| 2020s | 1,830 | #791 (2024) | #885 |
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.
Brittany in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 6,100 of them was named Brittany, which outranked 94.5% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).