Brittany
About 361,751 American babies have been named Brittany since 1963, most of them around 1989. In 2025 it ranked 928th. About 353,000 Brittanys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Brittany boys named Brittany
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 361,751
- Estimated living today
- 353,000
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1989
- Best rank
- 3rd
- Rank in 2025
- 928th
- First recorded
- 1963
- Girls / boys
- 360,673 / 1,078
How old the living Brittanys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 361,751 babies given the name since 1963, about 353,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 9,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a place name
Brytany, itself borrowed from Medieval Latin Britannia, applied to Brittany from at least the 6th century, and reinforced by Middle French Bretagne. See Britannia for more.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Brittanys
- Brittany Murphy (1977–2009)American actress and singer
- Brittany Snow (born 1986)American actress and model
- Brittany Daniel (born 1976)American actress
- Brittany Curran (born 1990)American actress
- Brittany Andrews (born 1973)American pornographic actress
- Brittany Byrnes (born 1987)Australian actress
- Brittany Elmslie (born 1994)Australian swimmer
- Brittany Bowe (born 1988)American speed skater
People named Brittany with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Brittany is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Brittany is most concentrated in Florida (1.6×), Georgia (1.5×), Alaska (1.5×), North Carolina (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1989
The most popular girls’ names the year Brittany peaked:
Brittany elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Brittany | 1,761 | 101st |
| New Zealand girls | Brittany | 1,239 | 14th |
| France girls | Brittany | 655 | 459th |
| Scotland girls | Brittany | 82 | 196th |
| Belgium girls | Brittany | 76 | 820th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Brittany | 32 | 181st |
| Ireland girls | Brittany | 3 | 528th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Brittany: rank by region
In 2009, Brittany was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Brittany | 532 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Brittany among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Brittany | 5 | 8 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Brittany against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.