Brittany
given name · Latin script
Meaning: English place name used as a given name, from the region Brittany; ultimately Latin 'Britannia'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Brittany is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Heard & McDonald Islands it is the most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 3.1K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #575 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 583 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
302,717 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Britney in EC Ecuador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
English place name used as a given name, from the region Brittany; ultimately Latin 'Britannia'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brittany counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #220 | 302,717 | 1 in 1.1K | 302K | Brittany | 583 |
| CA Canada | #340 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 2 | Brittany | 258 |
| AU Australia | #421 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 147 | Brittany | 215 |
| GB United Kingdom | #741 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 18 | Brittany | 199 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 5,038 | 1 in 3.4K | 5K | Britney | 27 |
| NZ New Zealand | #435 | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 15 | Brittany | 111 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #1 | — | — | — | Brittany | 2 |
302,717 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); INEC — civil registry names; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Brittany is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A cultural region, historical province, and peninsula in northwest France.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Nom anglais lié à la Bretagne; du latin Britannia, « Bretagne ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Origine anglaise, « originaire de (Grande-) Bretagne ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Piccola Bretagna
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Brittany Danielb. 1976USAmerican actress
- Brittany Murphyb. 1977USAmerican actress and singer (1977–2009)
- Brittany Ishibashib. 1980USAmerican actress
- Brittany Snowb. 1986USAmerican actress and model
- Brittany Allenb. 1986CACanadian actress
- Allie Hazeb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic performer (b. 1987)
- Brittany Howardb. 1988USAmerican singer
- Brittany Boweb. 1988USAmerican speed skater
- Brittany Curranb. 1990USAmerican actress
- Brittany Brownb. 1995USAmerican sprinter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 302K | #168 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 5K | #352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 345 | #168 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 281 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2000 | 147 | #51 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 58 | — |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2001 | 41 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2002 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 13 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 8 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2000 | 6 | #220 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2000 | 5 | #456 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Brittany?
- In the etymology graph, Brittney, Britney and Brittani are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Brittany mean, and where does it come from?
- English place name used as a given name, from the region Brittany; ultimately Latin 'Britannia'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Brittany a male or female name?
- Brittany is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Brittany?
- In the United States, the national register counted 302,717 people named Brittany in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Brittany compared with other names?
- In the United States, Brittany is the 220th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Brittany have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 303 thousand people named Brittany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brittany.
- Where is Brittany most common?
- Brittany is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Brittany?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brittanyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brittany” — the 220th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.