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Brianna vs Britzy

American parents have registered 265,237 Briannas since 1880, against 81 Britzys. Brianna is still ahead, with 1,372 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Brianna against Britzy, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Brianna Britzy

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Brianna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Brianna had 8,864 and Britzy had 27.

Side by side

  Brianna Britzy
Total US births 265,23781
Most in one year 12,89827
Babies in 2025 1,372under 5
Estimated living today 262,00080
Median age today 2416
Peak year 20002007
Best rank 15th girls5,230th girls
Rank in 2025 222ndunranked
First recorded 19632007
Girls / boys 264,799 / 43881 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Briannas alive today are over 24; half the Britzys are over 16. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Brianna and Britzy.