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Britton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #793 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #793 in 1987; #2,771 in 2025. About 66% of babies named Britton in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,771 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #793.
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Britton: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 boys in 2025. Peak: #793 in 1987 · most boys in one year: 151 (2006).
In 2025, 46 US boys were named Britton, making it the 2,771st most common boys’ name of the year, up 196 places from #2,967 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 42 boys named Britton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #793, reached in 1987. The most boys given the name in a single year was 151, in 2006. For comparison, it was #1,540 in 2015 and #3,753 in 1950.
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Britton, making it the 5,271st most common girls’ name of the year, up 559 places from #5,830 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 21 girls named Britton in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,929, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 103. For comparison, it was #2,358 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Britton in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 6 babies. In all, 8,293 US babies have been given the name, 24% of them girls and 76% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,767 babies named Britton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 737 US boys were named Britton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 106. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,132 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Britton ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,778 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Brighton (5,161 babies since 1880), Bryton (3,231 babies since 1880) and Britain (1,533 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brittan, Bretton and Britten are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Brittan (1,359), Bretton (1,106), Britten (883), Brittain (712), Brittyn (521), Breton (456), Brittin (340), Brittane (226), Breyton (196), Brityn (143), Brittian (110), Britian (92), 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.
No nicknames listed for Britton 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,778 | #1,374 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,271 | 46 | #2,771 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,830 | 42 | #2,967 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,381 | 56 | #2,419 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,341 | 56 | #2,472 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,629 | 65 | #2,175 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,456 | 83 | #1,800 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,238 | 88 | #1,765 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,255 | 102 | #1,607 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,570 | 93 | #1,696 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,807 | 106 | #1,556 |
| 2015 | 78 | #2,358 | 106 | #1,540 |
| 2014 | 99 | #2,000 | 104 | #1,539 |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,346 | 99 | #1,568 |
| 2012 | 88 | #2,150 | 115 | #1,440 |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,929 | 113 | #1,450 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,215 | 142 | #1,242 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,415 | 132 | #1,315 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,789 | 125 | #1,361 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,120 | 141 | #1,247 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,482 | 151 | #1,133 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,660 | 128 | #1,233 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,640 | 112 | #1,319 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,605 | 122 | #1,205 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,201 | 107 | #1,270 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,117 | 121 | #1,143 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,424 | 129 | #1,087 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,383 | 116 | #1,132 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,254 | 130 | #1,039 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,724 | 114 | #1,110 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,074 | 114 | #1,068 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,896 | 122 | #1,006 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,756 | 118 | #1,022 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,544 | 112 | #1,042 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,256 | 129 | #944 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,205 | 133 | #910 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,018 | 121 | #940 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,413 | 131 | #878 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,812 | 118 | #877 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,034 | 136 | #793 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,563 | 108 | #873 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,807 | 117 | #823 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,153 | 107 | #848 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,075 | 93 | #916 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,708 | 97 | #908 |
| 1981 | 29 | #2,996 | 95 | #922 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,424 | 86 | #968 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,921 | 67 | #1,089 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,208 | 62 | #1,111 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,496 | 58 | #1,145 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,695 | 54 | #1,165 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,649 | 47 | #1,240 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,709 | 51 | #1,151 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,386 | 51 | #1,151 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,412 | 50 | #1,152 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,569 | 59 | #1,058 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,521 | 63 | #1,025 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,633 | 54 | #1,050 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,813 | 42 | #1,166 |
| 1967 | — | — | 38 | #1,220 |
| 1966 | — | — | 35 | #1,284 |
| 1965 | — | — | 31 | #1,388 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,080 | 21 | #1,736 |
| 1963 | — | — | 29 | #1,460 |
| 1962 | — | — | 16 | #2,046 |
| 1961 | — | — | 23 | #1,693 |
| 1960 | — | — | 24 | #1,659 |
| 1959 | — | — | 16 | #2,044 |
| 1958 | — | — | 26 | #1,534 |
| 1957 | — | — | 20 | #1,796 |
| 1956 | — | — | 13 | #2,279 |
| 1955 | — | — | 18 | #1,850 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #2,976 |
| 1953 | — | — | 16 | #1,968 |
| 1952 | — | — | 11 | #2,393 |
| 1951 | — | — | 13 | #2,147 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,753 |
| 1949 | — | — | 12 | #2,237 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,034 |
| 1947 | — | — | 19 | #1,741 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,721 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,024 |
| 1944 | — | — | 14 | #1,898 |
| 1943 | — | — | 11 | #2,294 |
| 1942 | — | — | 17 | #1,740 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,182 |
| 1940 | — | — | 9 | #2,503 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,304 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #2,896 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,509 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,894 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,713 |
| 1934 | — | — | 9 | #2,581 |
| 1933 | — | — | 9 | #2,564 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #2,876 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,499 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,462 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,794 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,105 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,721 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,279 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,301 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,205 |
| 1922 | — | — | 10 | #2,829 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,827 |
| 1920 | — | — | 13 | #2,353 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,143 |
| 1918 | — | — | 10 | #2,715 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #2,987 |
| 1916 | — | — | 11 | #2,401 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,452 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #1,989 |
| 1896 | — | — | 6 | #994 |
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).