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Brittney vs Brixley

American parents have registered 82,468 Brittneys since 1880, against 511 Brixleys. But in 2025 it was Brixley that was commoner, 73 babies to 25.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Brittney Brixley

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

Of the 60 years in which either name was published, Brittney for 54 years and Brixley for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Brittney Brixley
Total US births 82,468511
Most in one year 7,88384
Babies in 2025 2573
Estimated living today 81,000510
Median age today 343
Peak year 19892023
Best rank 41st girls2,229th girls
Rank in 2025 5,099th2,438th
First recorded 19582011
Girls / boys 82,203 / 265506 / 5

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 Brittneys alive today are over 34; half the Brixleys are over 3. That is 31 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.

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