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Brittany vs Brixleigh

American parents have registered 361,751 Brittanys since 1880, against 62 Brixleighs. Brittany is still ahead, with 281 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Brittany Brixleigh

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 2020, when Brittany had 265 and Brixleigh had 19.

Side by side

  Brittany Brixleigh
Total US births 361,75162
Most in one year 38,00819
Babies in 2025 2816
Estimated living today 353,00060
Median age today 344
Peak year 19892020
Best rank 3rd girls6,083rd girls
Rank in 2025 928th13,208th
First recorded 19632020
Girls / boys 360,673 / 1,07862 / 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 Brittanys alive today are over 34; half the Brixleighs are over 4. That is 30 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: Brittany and Brixleigh.