# Brighton (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/brighton/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,161 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,013 / 2,148 (42% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 74 | 2,457 |
| 2012 | 76 | 2,429 |
| 2013 | 95 | 2,036 |
| 2014 | 98 | 2,010 |
| 2015 | 103 | 1,951 |
| 2016 | 101 | 1,974 |
| 2017 | 142 | 1,545 |
| 2018 | 131 | 1,624 |
| 2019 | 123 | 1,702 |
| 2020 | 130 | 1,609 |
| 2021 | 109 | 1,842 |
| 2022 | 100 | 1,963 |
| 2023 | 85 | 2,215 |
| 2024 | 88 | 2,157 |
| 2025 | 70 | 2,517 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 138 | 1,252 |
| 2012 | 157 | 1,163 |
| 2013 | 147 | 1,221 |
| 2014 | 153 | 1,203 |
| 2015 | 152 | 1,210 |
| 2016 | 125 | 1,401 |
| 2017 | 94 | 1,683 |
| 2018 | 118 | 1,468 |
| 2019 | 108 | 1,550 |
| 2020 | 95 | 1,674 |
| 2021 | 125 | 1,442 |
| 2022 | 104 | 1,654 |
| 2023 | 84 | 1,877 |
| 2024 | 78 | 1,986 |
| 2025 | 84 | 1,872 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## People named Brighton

- Brighton Sharbino, American actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.