girls:
35.3k births since 1968
#735 (87th percentile)
boys:
83 births since 1979
#4503 (2nd percentile)
overall:
35.4k births since 1968
#1331 (83rd percentile)
The name Britney is the #1,331 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 35,360 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 82.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #735 (87.2% percentile) for all time with 35,277 births since 1968. For boys, it ranks #4,503 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 83 births since 1979.
Britney first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for girls and 1979 for boys).
The name Britney has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Britney reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 85.9% percentile (ranked #117) with 1,252 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 1,252 births per million (ranked 85.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Britney ranks #741 for girls (21.8% percentile) with 121 births per million, which is 9.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Britney reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #734) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 11 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Britney".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Brittany. View all variations of Brittany.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Britney", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 86 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Brittany" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Brittany..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Britney. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.7% confident that Britney is pronounced as BRIHT-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BREET-nee, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like B R IH1 T N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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