Britney
#1,570 for girls in 2025, 134 births · Last seen for boys in 2001 at #10,556
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1989 · 2,494 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 35,585since 1968
Britney over time
Rank among girls' names. Britney has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,570 | 134 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,334 | 171 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,151 | 211 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,474 | 149 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,768 | 115 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,908 | 100 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,043 | 93 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,762 | 116 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,580 | 138 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,439 | 160 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,280 | 190 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,156 | 214 | — | |
| 2013 | #838 | 314 | — | |
| 2012 | #899 | 292 | — | |
| 2011 | #905 | 288 | — | |
| 2010 | #904 | 289 | — | |
| 2009 | #742 | 387 | — | |
| 2008 | #688 | 441 | — | |
| 2007 | #565 | 531 | — | |
| 2006 | #472 | 668 | — | |
| 2005 | #429 | 717 | — | |
| 2004 | #351 | 911 | — | |
| 2003 | #323 | 967 | — | |
| 2002 | #235 | 1,345 | — | |
| 2001 | #198 | 1,640 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #137 | 2,404 | — | |
| 1999 | #205 | 1,495 | — | |
| 1998 | #450 | 572 | — | |
| 1997 | #422 | 621 | — | |
| 1996 | #380 | 699 | — | |
| 1995 | #334 | 792 | — | |
| 1994 | #261 | 1,067 | — | |
| 1993 | #239 | 1,177 | — | |
| 1992 | #194 | 1,567 | — | |
| 1991 | #167 | 1,784 | — | |
| 1990 | #136 | 2,294 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #118 | 2,494 | #2,615 | 24 |
| 1988 | #138 | 2,084 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #177 | 1,585 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #189 | 1,404 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #267 | 938 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #447 | 464 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #532 | 357 | — | |
| 1982 | #642 | 278 | — | |
| 1981 | #760 | 217 | — | |
| 1980 | #845 | 184 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,056 | 131 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #1,454 | 79 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,404 | 80 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,585 | 63 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,232 | 37 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,290 | 34 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,309 | 33 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,820 | 24 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Britney! It came in at #3,789, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1970, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
Where Britney is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#154 · 1 in 688
- Hawaii#157 · 1 in 524
- West Virginia#174 · 1 in 760
- Tennessee#178 · 1 in 925
- Missouri#246 · 1 in 1,407
Best ever in a state: #36 in Hawaii, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #154 | 17 | 1 in 688 |
| Hawaii | #157 | 8 | 1 in 524 |
| West Virginia | #174 | 10 | 1 in 760 |
| Tennessee | #178 | 32 | 1 in 925 |
| Missouri | #246 | 21 | 1 in 1,407 |
| Oregon | #260 | 14 | 1 in 1,190 |
| New Mexico | #261 | 8 | 1 in 1,088 |
| Oklahoma | #263 | 12 | 1 in 1,331 |
| Georgia | #277 | 27 | 1 in 1,537 |
| Mississippi | #304 | 8 | 1 in 1,451 |
| Kentucky | #310 | 10 | 1 in 1,964 |
| Nevada | #310 | 6 | 1 in 1,375 |
| Utah | #317 | 10 | 1 in 1,523 |
| Alabama | #319 | 11 | 1 in 1,870 |
| North Carolina | #329 | 20 | 1 in 1,968 |
| Florida | #334 | 36 | 1 in 2,020 |
| Louisiana | #339 | 12 | 1 in 1,796 |
| Wisconsin | #340 | 12 | 1 in 2,116 |
| Maryland | #354 | 12 | 1 in 2,059 |
| Minnesota | #354 | 11 | 1 in 2,260 |
| New York | #363 | 49 | 1 in 2,129 |
| South Carolina | #366 | 8 | 1 in 2,032 |
| Michigan | #373 | 22 | 1 in 2,366 |
| Indiana | #380 | 14 | 1 in 2,350 |
| Kansas | #383 | 6 | 1 in 2,074 |
| Pennsylvania | #390 | 23 | 1 in 2,633 |
| Texas | #399 | 60 | 1 in 2,326 |
| Virginia | #419 | 13 | 1 in 2,626 |
| New Jersey | #421 | 16 | 1 in 2,646 |
| Illinois | #441 | 27 | 1 in 2,646 |
| Massachusetts | #449 | 10 | 1 in 3,220 |
| Ohio | #468 | 19 | 1 in 3,270 |
| California | #479 | 81 | 1 in 2,837 |
| Washington | #492 | 10 | 1 in 2,854 |
| Arizona | #527 | 10 | 1 in 2,847 |
| Colorado | #585 | 6 | 1 in 3,496 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Britney
- 236 spots since 2024 (#1,334 → #1,570)
- 338 spots since 2020 (#1,908 → #1,570)
- 290 spots since 2015 (#1,280 → #1,570)
- Biggest jump: 245 spots in 1999 (#450 → #205)
- Biggest drop: 318 spots in 2014 (#838 → #1,156)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1989 at #118 (2,494 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 1980–2013
- Highest: 1 in 739 girls born in 1989 were named Britney (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,995 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 33.9% of all girls named Britney (12,068) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 20 | #3,789 (1968) | #4,882 |
| 1970s | 507 | #1,056 (1979) | #2,400 |
| 1980s | 10,005 | #118 (1989) | #412 |
| 1990s | 12,068 | #136 (1990) | #279 |
| 2000s | 10,011 | #137 (2000) | #414 |
| 2010s | 2,094 | #838 (2013) | #1,281 |
| 2020s | 880 | #1,151 (2023) | #1,534 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Britney in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 2,508 of them was named Britney, which outranked 97.6% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).