Britney

Where Britney comes from

The dictionaries list Britney as a given name — a female given name transferred from the place name, variant of Brittany — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #3,789 among girls, 13 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1981
    Britney Spears born
    American singer, songwriter, actress and model
  3. 1986
    Britney Amber born
    American pornographic actress
  4. 1989
    Peak, #118
    2,494 babies named Britney — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #239.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the place name, variant of Brittany.
Namesakes
  • Britney Spears · American singer, songwriter, actress and model, born 1981
  • Britney Amber · American pornographic actress, born 1986
  • Britney Cooper · cricketer, born 1989
  • Britney Young · American actress, born 1987
  • Britney Stevens · American pornographic actress, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.