Britten
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Britten has been given to 883 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 25 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 60% boys, 40% girls all-time.
Babies named Britten, 2021
1 in 339,000
Britten 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Britten over time
In 2021, Britten went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Britten?
Britten 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 339,000
- 10 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 175,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 234,975 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Britten sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 234,975 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Britten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brittens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Britten was born before 1998 — so the typical Britten is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 27.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 53.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 529
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (145).
Is Britten 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 2001 (25)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.8% average annual change
Spellings of Britten
Britten is not the most common spelling — Tristen is, with 40.4% against Britten's 1.0%.
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 Britten is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Britten was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Britten has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Britten is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Britten was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 905,058 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 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. Britten has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Britten around the world
Where Britten 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.
- South Australia2002–2002#730in 2002
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Britten by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Britten
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Britten
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.