Britton

At the 2020 census, 27,730 Americans bore the surname Britton — 1,250th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 10,800.

By the numbers

People: 27,730
Rank: 1,250th
How common: 1 in 10,800
Per 100,000: 9.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.4%
Black, not Hispanic 19.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Britton

Connie Britton (born 1967)American actress
Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858–1934)American botanist
Leon Britton (born 1982)English association football player
Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934)American botanist and geologist
Cameron Britton (born 1986)actor
Barbara Britton (1920–1980)American film and television actress
Rosa María Britton (1936–2019)(1936-2019) Panamanian obstetrician gynecologist and writer
Tony Britton (1924–2019)English actor

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

Surnames like Britton

Also a first name

Britton has been given to 8,293 American babies as a first name since 1896, peaking in 2006. See it as a given name.

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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.