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Brittaney vs Brittney

American parents have registered 82,468 Brittneys since 1880, against 3,280 Brittaneys. Brittney is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Brittaney 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 2008, when Brittaney had 17 and Brittney had 238.

Side by side

  Brittaney Brittney
Total US births 3,28082,468
Most in one year 3757,883
Babies in 2025 under 525
Estimated living today 3,20081,000
Median age today 3534
Peak year 19891989
Best rank 583rd girls41st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,099th
First recorded 19781958
Girls / boys 3,280 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Brittaney Brittney
England and Wales 1188

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: Brittaney and Brittney.