Brittain

Brittain is the 4,288th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,005 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 37,300.

By the numbers

People: 8,005
Rank: 4,288th
How common: 1 in 37,300
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Anglo-Norman

Variant of Britain; habitational surname from Anglo-Norman Bretaigne (“Brittany”), from Latin Britannia.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Brittain described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Black, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Brittain

Vera Brittain (1893–1970)English writer
Colin Brittain (born 1986)American songwriter and producer
Matthew Brittain (born 1987)South African rower
Lawrence Brittain (born 1990)South African rower
Stan Brittain (born 1931)English racing cyclist
Will Brittain (born 1990)American actor

People named Brittain with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Brittain

Also a first name

Brittain has been given to 712 American babies as a first name since 1968, peaking in 1990. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.