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Brita

Girls' name

High, exalted, through Birgitta

Brita has been given to 1,097 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1981, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Brita, 2021

1 in 678,000

Brita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brita: meaning, origin, and history

High, exalted, through Birgitta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brita means

Brita belongs to the name family reached through Brita → Brita → Birgitta → Brigit. Its meaning is “high, exalted”.

Origin, language, and formation

Brita is used in Estonian, Faroese, Norwegian, Slovak and Swedish.

Brita comes through Swedish Brita.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Birgitta, Brigita, Brita and Brigit.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovak, Brita is pronounced /brita/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,097 girls were recorded with the name Brita between 1916 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1981; its best national rank was #2,362 in 1962.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Brita?

Brita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brita sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Britas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brita was born before 1981 — so the typical Brita is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
23.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,041
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1980s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (262).

Is Brita rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (41)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,362
1962

Spellings of Brita

Brita is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 19.1% against Brita's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Brita is used

Across 1910–2025, Brita was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 293,196 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 50,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Brita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brita around the world

Where Brita ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Ireland
    1980–1980
    #542
    in 1980
  • Norway
    1880–2017
    #520
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1963–1976
    #645
    in 1976

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Brita by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,362
1962
Peak year
1981
41 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,097
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Brita

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BrizaBrinaBriahBrielBrinnBrileeBrierBriyaBritnyEvitaBrindaBrilynnBrissaBriseisBriannyBrieBriyanaBrienneBrilynBriarBrianyBriasiaBritainBritta

Sibling names for Brita

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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