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Brittney vs Briyanna

American parents have registered 82,468 Brittneys since 1880, against 753 Briyannas. Brittney is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Brittney Briyanna

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 Brittney had 25 and Briyanna had 6.

Side by side

  Brittney Briyanna
Total US births 82,468753
Most in one year 7,88347
Babies in 2025 256
Estimated living today 81,000740
Median age today 3422
Peak year 19892002
Best rank 41st girls3,069th girls
Rank in 2025 5,099th13,208th
First recorded 19581990
Girls / boys 82,203 / 265753 / 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 Brittneys alive today are over 34; half the Briyannas are over 22. That is 12 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 Briyanna.