Brittney

Where Brittney comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Brittney.

  • Vowel-ended
Brittney through the years
  1. 1958
    First appearance
    #6,103 among girls with 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, the most in any year.
  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.