Meaning not yet researched.
Brittney: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #41 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #41 in 1989; #5,122 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brittney in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,122 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #41.
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Brittney: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 girls in 2025. Peak: #41 in 1989 · most girls in one year: 7,834 (1989).
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Brittney, making it the 5,122nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,143 places from #2,979 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 55 girls named Brittney in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #41, reached in 1989. That year also had the most girls given the name: 7,834. For comparison, it was #1,862 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brittney in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 5 babies. In all, 82,468 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 40,100 babies named Brittney.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 531 US girls were named Brittney; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 99. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Britney (35,668 babies since 1880), Brittny (3,585 babies since 1880), Brittni (5,992 babies since 1880) and Brittnee (2,822 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brithney, Brittnei and Brettney 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: Brithney (135), Brittnei (128), Brettney (121), Brytney (103), Brittnye (97), Bryttney (62), Britnei (45), Bretney (44), Brittnea (38), Bryttnee (10), Brithny (6), Brittnii (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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,122 | — | — |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,979 | — | — |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,647 | — | — |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,226 | — | — |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,529 | — | — |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,509 | — | — |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,861 | — | — |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,968 | — | — |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 2016 | 99 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 2015 | 110 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 2014 | 127 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 2013 | 143 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 2012 | 186 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 2011 | 205 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 2010 | 242 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 2009 | 236 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 2008 | 238 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 2007 | 360 | #799 | — | — |
| 2006 | 463 | #625 | — | — |
| 2005 | 524 | #548 | — | — |
| 2004 | 599 | #490 | — | — |
| 2003 | 758 | #399 | — | — |
| 2002 | 972 | #315 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,443 | #221 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2,316 | #148 | — | — |
| 1999 | 2,550 | #128 | — | — |
| 1998 | 2,239 | #143 | — | — |
| 1997 | 2,483 | #130 | 6 | #8,263 |
| 1996 | 2,741 | #115 | — | — |
| 1995 | 3,380 | #99 | — | — |
| 1994 | 3,876 | #89 | 7 | #7,056 |
| 1993 | 4,420 | #77 | 9 | #5,820 |
| 1992 | 5,085 | #68 | 9 | #5,709 |
| 1991 | 5,829 | #58 | 16 | #3,660 |
| 1990 | 7,427 | #44 | 23 | #2,789 |
| 1989 | 7,834 | #41 | 49 | #1,618 |
| 1988 | 6,576 | #52 | 31 | #2,041 |
| 1987 | 5,127 | #61 | 20 | #2,646 |
| 1986 | 4,593 | #65 | 27 | #2,104 |
| 1985 | 3,224 | #84 | 16 | #2,958 |
| 1984 | 1,559 | #176 | 16 | #2,837 |
| 1983 | 921 | #258 | 13 | #3,255 |
| 1982 | 726 | #332 | 9 | #4,270 |
| 1981 | 518 | #419 | 6 | #5,583 |
| 1980 | 454 | #468 | — | — |
| 1979 | 272 | #639 | 8 | #4,456 |
| 1978 | 200 | #772 | — | — |
| 1977 | 152 | #922 | — | — |
| 1976 | 112 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1975 | 93 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1974 | 72 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1973 | 74 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1972 | 75 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1971 | 85 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,058 | — | — |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,110 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,519 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,904 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,186 | — | — |
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).