Brithney
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brithney has been given to 135 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 2001, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Brithney, 2023
1 in 552,000
Brithney 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Brithney?
Brithney had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 552,000
- 6 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 267,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,940 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brithney sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brithney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brithneys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brithney was born before 2003 — so the typical Brithney is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 68.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 135
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 68.1% of all recorded uses (92).
Is Brithney 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 2001 (14)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.0% average annual change
Spellings of Brithney
Brithney is not the most common spelling — Brittney is, with 58.3% against Brithney's 0.10%.
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 Brithney is used
Across 1910–2025, Brithney was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,572,154 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Brithney has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Brithney around the world
Where Brithney 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.
- France1999–2011#7,710in 2011
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Brithney by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Brithney
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brithney
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.