girls:
92 births since 2000
#5624 (2nd percentile)
boys:
158 births since 2003
#4428 (3rd percentile)
overall:
250 births since 2000
#7489 (3rd percentile)
The name Brighten is the #7,489 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 250 recorded births since 2000. This represents the 3.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,428 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 158 births since 2003. For girls, it ranks #5,624 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 92 births since 2000.
Brighten first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2000 (2000 for girls and 2003 for boys). Birth data for Brighten is available in 21 out of the 24 years between 2000 and 2023 (19 years for boys and 14 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Brighten has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (63.2% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Brighten were boys. Interestingly, until around 2003, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 2000 to 2002), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (65.0% boys from 2003 to 2023).
For boys, Brighten reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #870) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Despite a low point around 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Brighten ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 52.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brighten reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #943) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brighten".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Brighten. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 91.7% confident that Brighten is pronounced as BRAI-tuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BRAI-tihn, at 8.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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