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Brithany vs Brittany

American parents have registered 361,751 Brittanys since 1880, against 793 Brithanys. Brittany is still ahead, with 281 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Brithany against Brittany, 1880 to 2025 0 10k 20k 30k 40k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Brithany Brittany

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

Brittany 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 2025, when Brithany had 28 and Brittany had 281.

Side by side

  Brithany Brittany
Total US births 793361,751
Most in one year 5638,008
Babies in 2025 28281
Estimated living today 790353,000
Median age today 1234
Peak year 20151989
Best rank 3,024th girls3rd girls
Rank in 2025 4,758th928th
First recorded 19861963
Girls / boys 793 / 0360,673 / 1,078

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 Brittanys alive today are over 34; half the Brithanys are over 12. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Brithany Brittany
England and Wales 31,761
France 170655
Belgium 1076

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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