Meaning not yet researched.
Brighton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 84 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,163 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,163 in 2012; #1,872 in 2025. About 55% of babies named Brighton in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,872 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,163.
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Brighton: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 84 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,163 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 157 (2012).
In 2025, 84 US boys were named Brighton, making it the 1,872nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 114 places from #1,986 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 78 boys named Brighton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,163, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 157. For comparison, it was #1,210 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 70 US girls were named Brighton, making it the 2,517th most common girls’ name of the year, down 360 places from #2,157 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 88 girls named Brighton in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,545, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 142. For comparison, it was #1,951 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brighton in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 6 babies. In all, 5,161 US babies have been given the name, 42% of them girls and 58% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,317 babies named Brighton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,015 US boys were named Brighton; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 125. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,334 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brighton ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #519 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Britton (8,293 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brighten, Brightyn and Breighton are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brighten (263), Brightyn (224), Breighton (58), Brightynn (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Brighton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 8 | #519 | #691 |
| Kansas | 5 | #603 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #1,880 | #1,189 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,115 | #1,156 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,517 | 84 | #1,872 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,157 | 78 | #1,986 |
| 2023 | 85 | #2,215 | 84 | #1,877 |
| 2022 | 100 | #1,963 | 104 | #1,654 |
| 2021 | 109 | #1,842 | 125 | #1,442 |
| 2020 | 130 | #1,609 | 95 | #1,674 |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,702 | 108 | #1,550 |
| 2018 | 131 | #1,624 | 118 | #1,468 |
| 2017 | 142 | #1,545 | 94 | #1,683 |
| 2016 | 101 | #1,974 | 125 | #1,401 |
| 2015 | 103 | #1,951 | 152 | #1,210 |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,010 | 153 | #1,203 |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,036 | 147 | #1,221 |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,429 | 157 | #1,163 |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,457 | 138 | #1,252 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,812 | 120 | #1,391 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,572 | 124 | #1,378 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,484 | 128 | #1,344 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,060 | 118 | #1,387 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,939 | 120 | #1,352 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,374 | 113 | #1,334 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,408 | 87 | #1,531 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,438 | 65 | #1,818 |
| 2002 | 32 | #3,993 | 39 | #2,511 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,337 | 38 | #2,526 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,199 | 33 | #2,746 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,946 | 51 | #1,903 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,508 | 46 | #2,041 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,919 | 33 | #2,457 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,660 | 24 | #3,038 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,364 | 29 | #2,562 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,476 | 20 | #3,340 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,747 | 11 | #5,045 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,568 | 8 | #6,200 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,696 | 12 | #4,519 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,363 | 5 | #8,271 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,632 | 6 | #7,059 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,362 | 10 | #4,485 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,198 | — | — |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,441 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,569 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).