Brittney

Where Brittney comes from

The dictionaries list Brittney 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1958
    First appearance
    #6,103 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1986
    Brittney Reese born
    American female Olympic athlete
  3. 1989
    Peak, #41
    7,834 babies named Brittney — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1990
    Brittney Griner born
    American basketball player
  5. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #89.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the place name, variant of Brittany.
Namesakes
  • Brittney Griner · American basketball player, born 1990
  • Brittney Reese · American female Olympic athlete, born 1986
  • Brittney Skye · American pornographic actress & model, born 1977
  • Brittney Powell · German actress, born 1975
  • Brittney Karbowski · American actress, born 1986

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.