Brighton
#2,514 for girls in 2025, 70 births · #1,867 for boys in 2025, 84 births
Given to boys 58.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 157 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,013since 1983
Brighton over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,514 | 70 | #1,867 | 84 |
| 2024 | #2,150 | 88 | #1,985 | 78 |
| 2023 | #2,210 | 85 | #1,875 | 84 |
| 2022 | #1,961 | 100 | #1,652 | 104 |
| 2021 | #1,841 | 109 | #1,442 | 125 |
| 2020 | #1,608 | 130 | #1,673 | 95 |
| 2019 | #1,700 | 123 | #1,548 | 108 |
| 2018 | #1,623 | 131 | #1,465 | 118 |
| 2017 | #1,545 | 142 | #1,681 | 94 |
| 2016 | #1,972 | 101 | #1,399 | 125 |
| 2015 | #1,950 | 103 | #1,210 | 152 |
| 2014 | #2,010 | 98 | #1,201 | 153 |
| 2013 | #2,032 | 95 | #1,216 | 147 |
| 2012 | #2,426 | 76 | #1,161 | 157 |
| 2011 | #2,454 | 74 | #1,250 | 138 |
| 2010 | #2,803 | 62 | #1,390 | 120 |
| 2009 | #2,568 | 72 | #1,377 | 124 |
| 2008 | #3,478 | 47 | #1,343 | 128 |
| 2007 | #3,047 | 57 | #1,387 | 118 |
| 2006 | #3,919 | 38 | #1,350 | 120 |
| 2005 | #3,366 | 45 | #1,334 | 113 |
| 2004 | #4,387 | 31 | #1,530 | 87 |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 | #1,815 | 65 |
| 2002 | #3,978 | 32 | #2,504 | 39 |
| 2001 | #4,321 | 28 | #2,520 | 38 |
| 2000 | #4,185 | 29 | #2,736 | 33 |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 | #1,903 | 51 |
| 1998 | #4,492 | 24 | #2,040 | 46 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | #2,449 | 33 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #3,021 | 24 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1994 | #5,445 | 17 | #3,326 | 20 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #4,450 | 10 |
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| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | — | |
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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brighton! It came in at #5,484, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1987, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Brighton is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#680 · 1 in 3,857
- New York#1,399 · 1 in 12,521
- California#1,712 · 1 in 21,068
- Texas#1,799 · 1 in 21,156
Best ever in a state: #228 in Utah, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #680 | 5 | 1 in 3,857 |
| New York | #1,399 | 7 | 1 in 12,521 |
| California | #1,712 | 9 | 1 in 21,068 |
| Texas | #1,799 | 8 | 1 in 21,156 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Brighton
- 118 spots since 2024 (#1,985 → #1,867)
- 194 spots since 2020 (#1,673 → #1,867)
- 657 spots since 2015 (#1,210 → #1,867)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2012 at #1,161 (157 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,082 boys born in 2012 were named Brighton (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,334 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.5% of all boys named Brighton (1,312) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 27 | #4,450 (1988) | #5,798 |
| 1990s | 239 | #1,903 (1999) | #3,902 |
| 2000s | 865 | #1,334 (2005) | #1,790 |
| 2010s | 1,312 | #1,161 (2012) | #1,352 |
| 2020s | 570 | #1,442 (2021) | #1,749 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brighton in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 12,435 of them was named Brighton, which outranked 90.8% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,593Sheila131
- #1,593Star131
- #1,593Tania131
- #1,608Brighton130
- #1,608Anaiah130
- #1,608Charlize130
- #1,608Emme130
- #1,616Ashtyn129
- #1,616Coral129
- #1,616Fatimah129
Tied with 7 names at #1,608; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 18,169 of them was named Brighton, which outranked 88.1% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,655Sky96
- #1,655Stellan96
- #1,655Zavion96
- #1,673Brighton95
- #1,673Brenton95
- #1,673Denis95
- #1,673Jahlil95
- #1,679Alexandre94
- #1,679Brigham94
- #1,679Iverson94
Tied with 5 names at #1,673; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.