Britney

Girl name

Britney has been given to 35,668 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It peaked in 1989.

Meaning & origin /ˈbɹɪtni/

Origin: place names

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Total babies

35,668

Peak year

1989 (2,518 babies)

Rank in 2025

Below top 1000

First recorded

1968

10-year trend

▼ -29%

Gender split

100% girls / 0% boys

Britney Spears

American singer, songwriter, actress and model (born 1981)

Notability data from Wikidata (CC0).

Same primary gender, peaked around the same years, and roughly as common as Britney.

37,187 babies since 1911

33,561 babies since 1948

33,528 babies since 1945

38,348 babies since 1945

32,870 babies since 1912

31,944 babies since 1966

39,565 babies since 1886

31,563 babies since 1969

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