Brittany Girl
How popular is Brittany?
#928 girl name in 2025
281 baby girls were named Brittany in the US in 2025, making it the 928th most popular girl name.
Brittany popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #928 for girls (▼ 137 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 281 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-59% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #462 in 2015, #960 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1989 (37,792 girls) |
| Highest rank | #3 in 1989 (3 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1963 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Brittany counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Brittany family of names ranked #799 for girls in 2025 (#688 the year before), with 305 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Brittany | 281 | 92% |
| Britany | 24 | 8% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Brittany is most popular
Babies named Brittany per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Tennessee: 0.5 per 1,000 (84 girls)
- Maryland: 0.5 per 1,000 (52 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.5 per 1,000 (83 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.3 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- Virginia: 0.3 per 1,000 (55 girls)
Brittany by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 148 | #1,499 |
| 1970s | 3,482 | #300 |
| 1980s | 140,854 | #3 |
| 1990s | 190,826 | #3 |
| 2000s | 17,569 | #60 |
| 2010s | 5,964 | #407 |
| 2020s | 1,830 | #791 |
Girl names about as popular as Brittany
Questions
- Is Brittany a boy or girl name?
- Brittany is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Brittany were girls.
- How popular is the name Brittany?
- 281 baby girls were named Brittany in the US in 2025, making it the 928th most popular girl name.
- When was Brittany most popular?
- Brittany peaked in 1989, when 37,792 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #3, held for 3 years starting in 1989.
- How many people are named Brittany?
- 361,751 babies have been named Brittany in the US since 1880. We estimate about 354,498 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 36.
- Where is Brittany most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Brittany was most common in Tennessee, at 0.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.