Brittan
Brittan is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 198636 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1974
- 1,358people given the name
The story in the numbers
878 girls have been named Brittan in the United States since 1974, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1986, with 36 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 36 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 29%.
Brittan is used for both sexes: 35% of its bearers are boys (480), most of them born around 1986.
By decade
In 1986, its biggest year
Brittan was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1986 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Jennifer and Sarah. See all of 1986.
Names that rose and fell with Brittan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kacipeak 1990
- Jennicapeak 1987
- Lawrenpeak 1989
- Catiepeak 1990
- Terynpeak 1985
- Kaysiepeak 1990
- Chassidypeak 1988
- Kaciepeak 1998
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.