Brittney
Brittney is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 55 births. Its best rank was 41st, in 1989.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 550.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19897,834 births
- Best rank
- #41in 1989
- Since 1958
- 82,177people given the name
The story in the numbers
82,177 girls have been named Brittney in the United States since 1958, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 7,834 births — 0.42% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 55 births in 2024, against 7,834 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1990s alone account for 49%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 11 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1989, its biggest year
Brittney was the 41st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1989 were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1989.
Names that rose and fell with Brittney
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Brittenypeak 1989
- Jerricapeak 1988
- Brittnaypeak 1989
- Brittaneypeak 1989
- Brittanypeak 1989
- Brittanipeak 1990
- Dominquepeak 1985
- Brittniepeak 1990
Other spellings in the data
- Britney35,449 ever
- Brittni5,986 ever
- Britni4,315 ever
- Brittny3,585 ever
- Brittnee2,822 ever
- Brittnie2,301 ever
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.