# Britton (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/britton/  
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 | 8,293 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,337 / 1,956 (24% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 | 103 | 1,929 |
| 2012 | 88 | 2,150 |
| 2013 | 78 | 2,346 |
| 2014 | 99 | 2,000 |
| 2015 | 78 | 2,358 |
| 2016 | 61 | 2,807 |
| 2017 | 43 | 3,570 |
| 2018 | 49 | 3,255 |
| 2019 | 49 | 3,238 |
| 2020 | 44 | 3,456 |
| 2021 | 42 | 3,629 |
| 2022 | 24 | 5,341 |
| 2023 | 32 | 4,381 |
| 2024 | 21 | 5,830 |
| 2025 | 24 | 5,271 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 113 | 1,450 |
| 2012 | 115 | 1,440 |
| 2013 | 99 | 1,568 |
| 2014 | 104 | 1,539 |
| 2015 | 106 | 1,540 |
| 2016 | 106 | 1,556 |
| 2017 | 93 | 1,696 |
| 2018 | 102 | 1,607 |
| 2019 | 88 | 1,765 |
| 2020 | 83 | 1,800 |
| 2021 | 65 | 2,175 |
| 2022 | 56 | 2,472 |
| 2023 | 56 | 2,419 |
| 2024 | 42 | 2,967 |
| 2025 | 46 | 2,771 |

## People named Britton

- Britton Chance, American biochemist and Olympic sailor (1913–2010)
- Britton Wilson, American athlete
- Britton Johnsen, American basketball player (born 1979)

## 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.