Meaning not yet researched.
Brittany: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 281 in 2025. Its best rank was #3 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3 in 1991; #928 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brittany in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#928 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #3.
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Brittany: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 281 girls in 2025. Peak: #3 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 37,792 (1989).
In 2025, 281 US girls were named Brittany, making it the 928th most common girls’ name of the year, down 137 places from #791 in 2024. That is 75 fewer than the 356 girls named Brittany in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3, reached in 1991. The most girls given the name in a single year was 37,792, in 1989. For comparison, it was #462 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brittany in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 7 babies. In all, 361,751 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 191,186 babies named Brittany.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,432 US girls were named Brittany; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 573. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,720 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brittany ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #412 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Brittani (11,776 babies since 1880), Britany (6,562 babies since 1880), Brittni (5,992 babies since 1880) and Britta (3,682 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Britanny, Brithany and Brittiny are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Britt and Brittnie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Britanny (817), Brithany (793), Brittiny (597), Brittainy (531), Brittania (402), Brittanny (389), Brittiney (339), Britaney (261), Bryttany (235), Brittony (213), Bryttani (205), Britiany (180), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 19 | #412 | #443 |
| New Jersey | 16 | #476 | #314 |
| Maryland | 9 | #557 | #396 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #614 | #300 |
| Texas | 51 | #616 | #275 |
| Oregon | 5 | #648 | — |
| Florida | 26 | #656 | #402 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #722 | #684 |
| Virginia | 9 | #776 | #326 |
| Georgia | 11 | #865 | #491 |
| New York | 14 | #1,038 | #346 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,072 | #666 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,077 | #420 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,132 | #717 |
| California | 20 | #1,249 | #380 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,311 | #1,312 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,441 | #366 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 281 | #928 | — | — |
| 2024 | 356 | #791 | — | — |
| 2023 | 311 | #858 | — | — |
| 2022 | 333 | #841 | — | — |
| 2021 | 284 | #936 | — | — |
| 2020 | 265 | #961 | — | — |
| 2019 | 320 | #843 | — | — |
| 2018 | 307 | #880 | — | — |
| 2017 | 402 | #714 | — | — |
| 2016 | 573 | #546 | — | — |
| 2015 | 689 | #462 | — | — |
| 2014 | 698 | #458 | — | — |
| 2013 | 724 | #421 | — | — |
| 2012 | 769 | #407 | — | — |
| 2011 | 750 | #419 | — | — |
| 2010 | 732 | #427 | — | — |
| 2009 | 672 | #461 | — | — |
| 2008 | 776 | #414 | — | — |
| 2007 | 918 | #352 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,025 | #320 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,193 | #277 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,356 | #240 | 13 | #5,855 |
| 2003 | 1,578 | #209 | 5 | #11,103 |
| 2002 | 1,937 | #170 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2,929 | #115 | 10 | #6,519 |
| 2000 | 5,185 | #60 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7,942 | #35 | 5 | #10,098 |
| 1998 | 9,844 | #25 | 13 | #4,913 |
| 1997 | 11,529 | #20 | 13 | #4,698 |
| 1996 | 13,797 | #14 | 19 | #3,562 |
| 1995 | 16,477 | #8 | 36 | #2,213 |
| 1994 | 18,900 | #7 | 38 | #2,125 |
| 1993 | 21,725 | #6 | 35 | #2,219 |
| 1992 | 24,983 | #4 | 44 | #1,847 |
| 1991 | 29,093 | #3 | 45 | #1,771 |
| 1990 | 36,536 | #3 | 112 | #996 |
| 1989 | 37,792 | #3 | 216 | #678 |
| 1988 | 26,816 | #6 | 100 | #962 |
| 1987 | 22,231 | #7 | 88 | #1,010 |
| 1986 | 20,313 | #8 | 75 | #1,076 |
| 1985 | 15,437 | #17 | 61 | #1,215 |
| 1984 | 7,665 | #41 | 46 | #1,400 |
| 1983 | 4,377 | #64 | 26 | #2,024 |
| 1982 | 3,102 | #94 | 16 | #2,852 |
| 1981 | 1,714 | #165 | 9 | #4,190 |
| 1980 | 1,407 | #190 | 7 | #4,996 |
| 1979 | 794 | #300 | 11 | #3,593 |
| 1978 | 630 | #344 | 9 | #3,895 |
| 1977 | 488 | #419 | 7 | #4,647 |
| 1976 | 351 | #508 | 8 | #4,052 |
| 1975 | 332 | #527 | — | — |
| 1974 | 244 | #633 | 11 | #3,155 |
| 1973 | 219 | #683 | — | — |
| 1972 | 199 | #719 | — | — |
| 1971 | 149 | #890 | — | — |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1969 | 62 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,223 | — | — |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,278 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,226 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,866 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,352 | — | — |
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).