Brittany

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Brittany: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Brittany: Recorded since 1989, it reached #14 in 1997, and it stood at #4,843 in 2024.

5registrars recorded it
52times a registrar ranked it
36years from first to last
#14highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for
5names it appears alongside

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#186
1997	#133
1998	#137
1999	#101
2000	#275
2001	#871
2002	#1245
2003	#1083
2004	#1312
2005	#1500
2006	#3548
2007	#4294
2008	#2487
2010	#4688
2011	#4049
2012	#4171
2013	#3536
2014	#4003
2015	#3615
2016	#4763
2017	#2925
2018	#4684
2021	#3519
2022	#3533
2024	#4843

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 25 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2000: #48 among girls in New Zealand, #51 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, #220 among girls in Northern Ireland, #275 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1989–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1989
First recorded at #84 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1989 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1990–2000
Highest recorded position: #14 among girls in New Zealand, in 1997 (recorded 1990–2000).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Brittany appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 25 ranked years and 1,756 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, from 1989.

Brittany across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Brittany's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#186 (1996)	#101 (1999)	#4843 (2024)	25 of 29	1,756 (1996–2024)	510 (1999)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#84 (1989)	#17 (1993)	#51 (2000)	11 of 12	2,353 (1989–2000)	314 (1993)
New Zealand · Girls	#87 (1990)	#14 (1997)	#48 (2000)	11 of 11	1,239 (1990–2000)	174 (1997)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#204 (1997)	#181 (1999)	#220 (2000)	4 of 4	32 (1997–2000)	9 (1998)

Brittany by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Brittany in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	1,440	4 of 10	360
2000sbusiest	253	9 of 10	28
2010s	47	9 of 10	5
2020s	16	3 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 28 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1999 and 2000, when recorded births fell by 370, from 510 to 140.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Brittany appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1989 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #14 in New Zealand in 1997.

Brittany's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3519	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2487	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1500	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1312	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1083	21	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1245	16	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#871	26	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#275	140	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#101	510	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#137	334	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#133	358	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#186	238	High	Verified
2000	New South Wales, Australia	female	#51	147	Insufficient	Not yet available
1999	New South Wales, Australia	female	#26	216	Insufficient	Not yet available
1998	New South Wales, Australia	female	#34	192	Insufficient	Not yet available
1997	New South Wales, Australia	female	#28	228	Insufficient	Not yet available
1996	New South Wales, Australia	female	#23	247	Insufficient	Not yet available
1995	New South Wales, Australia	female	#17	289	Insufficient	Not yet available
1994	New South Wales, Australia	female	#20	270	Insufficient	Not yet available
1993	New South Wales, Australia	female	#17	314	Insufficient	Not yet available
1992	New South Wales, Australia	female	#26	264	Insufficient	Not yet available
1991	New South Wales, Australia	female	#97	87	Insufficient	Not yet available
1989	New South Wales, Australia	female	#84	99	Insufficient	Not yet available
2000	New Zealand	female	#48	82	High	Verified
1999	New Zealand	female	#38	100	High	Verified
1998	New Zealand	female	#33	110	High	Verified
1997	New Zealand	female	#14	174	High	Verified
1996	New Zealand	female	#29	125	High	Verified
1995	New Zealand	female	#25	147	High	Verified
1994	New Zealand	female	#24	164	High	Verified
1993	New Zealand	female	#42	121	High	Verified
1992	New Zealand	female	#61	85	High	Verified
1991	New Zealand	female	#73	74	High	Verified
1990	New Zealand	female	#87	57	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#220	6	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#181	9	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#187	9	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#204	8	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#528	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1989 and 2024, ranked in 32 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #14, first reached in 1997.

It held a top-100 place in 12 years, 12 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 510 births, registered in England and Wales in 1999.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1990, and 10 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Britney · #66, 29y
Britt · #28, 55y
Brock · #69, 27y
Broden · #1457, 22y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Finley · #16, 30y
Shania · #16, 30y
Bethany · #11, 33y
Freddie · #10, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Blake · #14, 44y
Jasmine · #13, 46y
Molly · #15, 36y
Caleb · #12, 44y

Comparisons involving Brittany

Existing comparison pages where Brittany and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Order changes

Pairs where Brittany and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Charlotte vs Brittany
In New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Charlotte moved into the top 50 at #26 in 2000 as Brittany fell out of it to #51, having been #26 the year before.
Charlotte · Brittany · 10 shared years, 1989–2000 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2000 New South Wales, Australia ranking
Claire vs Brittany
In New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Brittany moved into the top 50 at #26 in 1992 as Claire fell out of it to #59, having been #42 the year before.
Claire · Brittany · 11 shared years, 1989–2000 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 1992 New South Wales, Australia ranking
Katie vs Brittany
In New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Brittany moved into the top 50 at #26 in 1992 as Katie fell out of it to #51, having been #48 the year before.
Katie · Brittany · 11 shared years, 1989–2000 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 1992 New South Wales, Australia ranking

Brittany was ranked #14 in New Zealand · Girls in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Brittany and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Brittany without appearing here.

Brittany moved ahead of

Alison Compare
In 1991 they stood at #97 and #94 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1992 that had become #26 and #94.
Julia Compare
In 1991 they stood at #97 and #96 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1992 that had become #26 and #93.
Jordan Compare
In 1992 they stood at #97 and #95 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1993 that had become #17 and #77.
Alice Compare
In 1991 they stood at #97 and #69 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1992 that had become #26 and #77.

Moved ahead of Brittany

Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2925 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #1711.
Lorraine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3533 and #4645 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #2115.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3536 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4003 and #1628.
Arlo Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2925 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #2340.

Moved the opposite way to Brittany

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Brittany went from #186 to #4843 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Brittany went from #186 to #4843 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Brittany went from #186 to #4843 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Brittany went from #186 to #4843 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Brittany

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Brittany went from #186 to #4843 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Brittany went from #186 to #4843 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Brittany went from #186 to #4843 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Brittany went from #186 to #4843 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1989 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #14 in New Zealand in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Brittany

Brittany at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Brittany across 4 official records

Brittany by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Brittany appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Comparisons involving Brittany

Order changes

Names published alongside Brittany

Brittany and the names beside it

Brittany moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Brittany

Moved the opposite way to Brittany

Moved the same way as Brittany

Brittany at a glance

Brittany across 4 official records

Brittany by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Brittany appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Comparisons involving Brittany

Order changes

Names published alongside Brittany

Brittany and the names beside it

Brittany moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Brittany

Moved the opposite way to Brittany

Moved the same way as Brittany