girls:
360k births since 1963
#102 (98th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1974
#3520 (23rd percentile)
overall:
361.1k births since 1963
#197 (97th percentile)
The name Brittany is the #197 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 361,097 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 97.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #102 (98.2% percentile) for all time with 360,019 births since 1963. For boys, it ranks #3,520 (23.2% percentile) for all time with 1,078 births since 1974.
Brittany first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (1963 for girls and 1974 for boys).
The name Brittany has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Brittany reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 99.8% percentile (ranked #3) with 17,784 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 18,970 births per million (ranked 99.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Brittany ranks #651 for girls (31.3% percentile) with 177 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Brittany reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 26.7% percentile (ranked #555) with 103 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 103 births per million (ranked 26.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brittany".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Brittany. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.6% confident that Brittany is pronounced as BRIH-tuh-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BRIHT-nee, at 20.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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