# Brittney (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/brittney/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Brittneigh |
| US babies named this | 82,468 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 265 / 82,203 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 88, 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 | 205 | 1,178 |
| 2012 | 186 | 1,284 |
| 2013 | 143 | 1,529 |
| 2014 | 127 | 1,665 |
| 2015 | 110 | 1,862 |
| 2016 | 99 | 2,001 |
| 2017 | 74 | 2,440 |
| 2018 | 55 | 2,968 |
| 2019 | 58 | 2,861 |
| 2020 | 43 | 3,509 |
| 2021 | 30 | 4,529 |
| 2022 | 50 | 3,226 |
| 2023 | 42 | 3,647 |
| 2024 | 55 | 2,979 |
| 2025 | 25 | 5,122 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | 5,583 |
| 1982 | 9 | 4,270 |
| 1983 | 13 | 3,255 |
| 1984 | 16 | 2,837 |
| 1985 | 16 | 2,958 |
| 1986 | 27 | 2,104 |
| 1987 | 20 | 2,646 |
| 1988 | 31 | 2,041 |
| 1989 | 49 | 1,618 |
| 1990 | 23 | 2,789 |
| 1991 | 16 | 3,660 |
| 1992 | 9 | 5,709 |
| 1993 | 9 | 5,820 |
| 1994 | 7 | 7,056 |
| 1997 | 6 | 8,263 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 4 | 3,126 |
| 1998 | 6 | 2,407 |
| 1999 | 40 | 631 |
| 2000 | 26 | 852 |
| 2001 | 9 | 1,870 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |

## People named Brittney

- Brittney Griner, American basketball player (born 1990)
- Brittney Reese, American female Olympic athlete
- Brittney Skye, American pornographic actress & model
- Brittney Powell, German actress
- Brittney Karbowski, American actress
- Brittney Sykes, American basketball player (born 1994)
- Charlotte Stokely, American pornographic 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.