Brittony
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brittony has been given to 213 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 1988, with 26 recorded.
Babies named Brittony, 1999
1 in 615,000
Brittony 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Brittony?
Brittony had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1999
- 1 in 615,000
- 6 of 3,692,373 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 296,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1999
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 426,561 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brittony sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 426,561 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brittony. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brittonys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brittony was born before 1988 — so the typical Brittony is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 62.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 213
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 62.0% of all recorded uses (132).
Is Brittony 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
- —
- 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 1988 (26)
- Years since peak
- 37
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.3% average annual change
Spellings of Brittony
Brittony is not the most common spelling — Brittany is, with 74.1% against Brittony's 0.04%.
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.
Brittony around the world
Where Brittony 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 & Wales1996–1997#3,824in 1997
- South Australia1992–1992#704in 1992
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Brittony by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Brittony
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brittony
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.