Brittany
Brittany is ranked 791st among girls in 2024 (355 births). Its best rank was 3rd, in 1989–1991.
- Rank in 2024
- #791up 65 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3550.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 198937,791 births
- Best rank
- #3first in 1989
- Since 1963
- 361,465people given the name
The story in the numbers
360,387 girls have been named Brittany in the United States since 1963, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 37,791 births — 2.0% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 355 births in 2024, against 37,791 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 1990s alone account for 53%. It has spent 54 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 19 of them in the top 100 and 10 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,078 boys have also been given it, 0.30% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1989, its biggest year
Brittany was the 3rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1989 were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1989.
Names that rose and fell with Brittany
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Brittanipeak 1990
- Brittnaypeak 1989
- Brittaneypeak 1989
- Brittniepeak 1990
- Brittaniepeak 1990
- Brittnipeak 1990
- Brittneypeak 1989
- Brittneepeak 1990
Other spellings in the data
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.