Britaney
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Britaney has been given to 261 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1989, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Britaney, 2010
1 in 616,000
Britaney over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Britaney?
Britaney had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2010
- 1 in 616,000
- 6 of 3,695,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 296,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2010
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 426,971 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Britaney sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 426,971 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Britaney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Britaneys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Britaney was born before 1992 — so the typical Britaney is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 44.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 261
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (115).
Is Britaney 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1989 (25)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.9% average annual change
Spellings of Britaney
Britaney is not the most common spelling — Brittany is, with 71.4% against Britaney's 0.05%.
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.
Britaney around the world
Where Britaney 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.
- England & Wales1999–1999#3,900in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Britaney by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Britaney
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Britaney
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.