Meaning not yet researched.
Britain: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,520 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,520 in 1986; #7,269 in 2025. About 61% of babies named Britain in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,269 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #2,520.
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Britain: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,520 in 1986 · most boys in one year: 39 (2014).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Britain, making it the 7,269th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,850 places from #9,119 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 8 boys named Britain in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,520, reached in 1986. The most boys given the name in a single year was 39, in 2014. For comparison, it was #3,523 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Britain, making it the 12,140th most common girls’ name of the year, down 836 places from #11,304 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 8 girls named Britain in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,929, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 38. For comparison, it was #4,315 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Britain in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 6 babies. In all, 1,533 US babies have been given the name, 46% of them girls and 54% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 559 babies named Britain.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 162 US boys were named Britain; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Britton (8,293 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Britane 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: Britane (15).
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 Britain in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,140 | 11 | #7,269 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,304 | 8 | #9,119 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,364 | 7 | #9,900 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,544 | 13 | #6,540 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,080 | 13 | #6,380 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,056 | 13 | #6,349 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,019 | 20 | #4,827 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,570 | 24 | #4,247 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,929 | 22 | #4,488 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,309 | 31 | #3,538 |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,315 | 31 | #3,523 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,565 | 39 | #2,939 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,037 | 31 | #3,418 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,231 | 28 | #3,726 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,945 | 30 | #3,523 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,962 | 30 | #3,543 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,142 | 27 | #3,845 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,792 | 23 | #4,283 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,793 | 26 | #3,914 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,404 | 17 | #5,102 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,055 | 15 | #5,321 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,836 | 16 | #5,043 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,112 | 13 | #5,598 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,928 | 15 | #4,941 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,038 | 10 | #6,518 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,228 | 18 | #4,230 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,615 | 19 | #3,857 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,384 | 12 | #5,188 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,025 | 6 | #8,262 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,198 | 13 | #4,641 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,588 | 22 | #3,109 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,733 | 24 | #2,955 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,569 | 19 | #3,382 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,123 | 16 | #3,774 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,690 | 13 | #4,261 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,368 | 12 | #4,443 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,575 | 21 | #2,919 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,320 | 10 | #4,486 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,964 | 10 | #4,282 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,839 | 21 | #2,520 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,445 | 14 | #3,235 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,260 | 8 | #4,609 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,573 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,687 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,602 | — | — |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,178 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,166 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,677 | 7 | #4,611 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,804 | 5 | #5,950 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,276 | — | — |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,567 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,299 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,575 |
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).