Britta

Where Britta comes from

Britta hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #4,417 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Britta Heidemann born
    German fencer
  3. 1983
    Britta Steffen born
    German swimmer
  4. 1986
    Peak, #867
    191 babies named Britta — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1992
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,761.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Britta Steffen · German swimmer, born 1983
  • Britta Heidemann · German fencer, born 1982
  • Britta Oppelt · German rower, born 1978
  • Britta Bilač · German-Slovene high jumper, born 1968
  • Britta Johansson Norgren · Swedish cross-country skier, born 1983

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.