Brittany

What Brittany means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Brittany yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1989, with 37,792 babies; 281 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Brittany?

US: Falling: down from #462 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #3615 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1989, when 37,792 girls got the name (#3 that year). First in the US records in 1963.

How common

• About 1 in 5,720 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 50,656 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in TN (0.59 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.45 per 1,000 girls), NJ (0.45 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Brittany is #928 in the US and #4201 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Brittany were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Britany24 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Brittany

Girls

• Savannah#135From the word “savannah”^*
• Dakota#295“ally”^*
• Brooklyn#118“wetland, marsh”^*
• Isla#28Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #142 in 2015, #28 in 2025. Short and simple: 4 letters
• Mary#125Same root as Miriam, possibly meaning “bitter”^*
• Amy#257“beloved”^*

For a brother

• Dallas#238“dweller at the house in the dale”^*
• Mark#244Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 58,727 babies; 1,416 in 2025
• Patrick#235“patrician”^*
• Paul#262“small”^*
• Timothy#203“to honour + god”^*
• Robert#92“shining glory”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a place name where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Brittany’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.