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Britny vs Brittney

American parents have registered 82,468 Brittneys since 1880, against 1,920 Britnys. Brittney is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Britny against Brittney, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Britny Brittney

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

Brittney has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1958 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Britny had 6 and Brittney had 25.

Side by side

  Britny Brittney
Total US births 1,92082,468
Most in one year 2897,883
Babies in 2025 625
Estimated living today 1,90081,000
Median age today 3434
Peak year 19901989
Best rank 722nd girls41st girls
Rank in 2025 13,208th5,099th
First recorded 19801958
Girls / boys 1,920 / 082,203 / 265

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

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