Britten
Britten reached its high-water mark in 2001 at number 3,410, and has been recorded 883 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2021. About 860 Brittens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Britten boys named Britten
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 883
- Estimated living today
- 860
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 2001
- Best rank
- 3,410th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1971
- Girls / boys
- 354 / 529
How old the living Brittens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 883 babies given the name since 1971, about 860 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 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 Britten is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2001
The most popular boys’ names the year Britten peaked:
Britten 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 | Britten | 6 | 6 |
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
Britten against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.