Britta
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 191 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,682since 1916
Britta over time
Rank among girls' names. Britta has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 |
| 2020 | #3,778 | 38 |
| 2019 | #4,343 | 32 |
| 2018 | #3,853 | 38 |
| 2017 | #3,305 | 48 |
| 2016 | #3,707 | 41 |
| 2015 | #2,964 | 58 |
| 2014 | #3,925 | 38 |
| 2013 | #3,573 | 43 |
| 2012 | #3,915 | 39 |
| 2011 | #3,550 | 44 |
| 2010 | #3,816 | 40 |
| 2009 | #4,482 | 33 |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 |
| 2006 | #3,854 | 39 |
| 2005 | #4,828 | 27 |
| 2004 | #4,093 | 34 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 |
| 2002 | #4,071 | 31 |
| 2001 | #3,549 | 37 |
| 2000 | #3,271 | 41 |
| 1999 | #2,991 | 44 |
| 1998 | #3,068 | 41 |
| 1997 | #2,045 | 69 |
| 1996 | #2,084 | 66 |
| 1995 | #1,880 | 74 |
| 1994 | #1,827 | 78 |
| 1993 | #1,471 | 108 |
| 1992 | #1,761 | 83 |
| 1991 | #1,375 | 117 |
| 1990 | #1,146 | 150 |
| 1989 | #1,183 | 138 |
| 1988 | #1,255 | 117 |
| 1987 | #1,025 | 151 |
| 1986 | #867 | 191 |
| 1985 | #1,552 | 78 |
| 1984 | #1,657 | 66 |
| 1983 | #1,665 | 66 |
| 1982 | #1,584 | 74 |
| 1981 | #1,580 | 74 |
| 1980 | #1,833 | 59 |
| 1979 | #1,917 | 54 |
| 1978 | #1,824 | 55 |
| 1977 | #1,877 | 53 |
| 1976 | #1,729 | 55 |
| 1975 | #2,060 | 42 |
| 1974 | #1,709 | 53 |
| 1973 | #1,570 | 59 |
| 1972 | #1,989 | 40 |
| 1971 | #2,247 | 35 |
| 1970 | #1,781 | 50 |
| 1969 | #2,023 | 38 |
| 1968 | #2,360 | 27 |
| 1967 | #1,980 | 35 |
| 1966 | #1,952 | 35 |
| 1965 | #2,293 | 27 |
| 1964 | #2,600 | 23 |
| 1963 | #1,952 | 36 |
| 1962 | #2,539 | 23 |
| 1961 | #2,070 | 32 |
| 1960 | #2,729 | 20 |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 |
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| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 |
| 1940 | #2,963 | 9 |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
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| 1934 | #3,802 | 6 |
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| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 |
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| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Britta! It came in at #4,417, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1933, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Britta is popular in 1963
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,322 · 1 in 24,873
Best ever in a state: #111 in North Dakota, 1988.
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| California | #1,322 | 7 | 1 in 24,873 |
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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 Britta
- 1,692 spots since 2024 (#5,799 → #7,491)
- 3,713 spots since 2020 (#3,778 → #7,491)
- 4,527 spots since 2015 (#2,964 → #7,491)
- Biggest jump: 685 spots in 1986 (#1,552 → #867)
- Biggest drop: 158 spots in 1987 (#867 → #1,025)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1986 at #867 (191 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1986
- Highest: 1 in 8,982 girls born in 1986 were named Britta (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.5% of all girls named Britta (1,014) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,417 (1916) | #4,417 |
| 1920s | 10 | #5,009 (1922) | #5,054 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,802 (1934) | #4,029 |
| 1940s | 52 | #2,963 (1940) | #3,796 |
| 1950s | 63 | #3,687 (1953) | #4,564 |
| 1960s | 296 | #1,952 (1963) | #2,250 |
| 1970s | 496 | #1,570 (1973) | #1,870 |
| 1980s | 1,014 | #867 (1986) | #1,420 |
| 1990s | 830 | #1,146 (1990) | #1,965 |
| 2000s | 324 | #3,271 (2000) | #4,367 |
| 2010s | 421 | #2,964 (2015) | #3,695 |
| 2020s | 160 | #3,778 (2020) | #5,211 |
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.
Britta in 1963
Top girls' names in 1963
More about 1963
girls
1,927,507 girls got a published name in 1963; 1 in 53,542 of them was named Britta, which outranked 74.5% of the 7,661 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,922Una37
- #1,922Vanita37
- #1,922Viki37
- #1,952Britta36
- #1,952Alycia36
- #1,952Annita36
- #1,952Brett36
- #1,981Alida35
- #1,981Annabel35
- #1,981Annett35
Tied with 28 names at #1,952; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.