Britton
Britton is a boy's name that peaked in 2006, when it was the 1,132nd most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,765th. About 7,700 Brittons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Britton boys named Britton
Girls and boys called Britton
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,956 girls and 6,337 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 24 to 46.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 64 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,293
- Estimated living today
- 7,700
- Median age today
- 25
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 1,132nd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,765th
- First recorded
- 1896
- Girls / boys
- 1,956 / 6,337
How old the living Brittons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,293 babies given the name since 1896, about 7,700 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 2,600 of them are children and 180 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 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.
Notable Brittons
- Britton Chance (1913–2010)American biochemist and Olympic sailor
People named Britton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Britton is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Britton is most concentrated in Utah (10.8×), Texas (3.5×), Tennessee (2.8×), Georgia (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Britton peaked:
Related names
Britton 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.