Britney

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Britney: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #66 in 2000, and it stood at #3,015 in 2024.

5registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#66highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#3174
1998	#1979
1999	#148
2000	#170
2001	#357
2002	#500
2003	#607
2004	#821
2005	#824
2006	#958
2007	#1443
2008	#1516
2009	#2019
2010	#1520
2011	#2636
2012	#2969
2013	#3160
2014	#2314
2015	#2496
2016	#2367
2017	#2502
2018	#2674
2019	#3151
2020	#2449
2021	#3192
2022	#5669
2023	#3598
2024	#3015

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2017: #734 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2502 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3015 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Britney appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,070 births with the name.

Britney 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.

Britney'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	#3126 (1996)	#148 (1999)	#3015 (2024)	29 of 29	1,070 (1996–2024)	314 (1999)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#194 (1999)	#179 (2000)	#734 (2017)	13 of 19	120 (1999–2017)	20 (2000)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#89 (1999)	#87 (2000)	#87 (2000)	2 of 2	177 (1999–2000)	90 (1999)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#146 (1999)	#111 (2000)	#111 (2000)	2 of 2	31 (1999–2000)	18 (2000)

Britney 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 Britney in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	330	4 of 10	83
2000sbusiest	605	10 of 10	61
2010s	101	10 of 10	10
2020s	34	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 61 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1998 and 1999, when recorded births rose by 306, from 8 to 314.

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

Britney 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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #66 in New Zealand in 2000.

Britney'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	#3015	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2449	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2674	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2496	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2314	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1520	19	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2019	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1516	18	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1443	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#958	30	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#824	34	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#821	33	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#607	48	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#500	60	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#357	94	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#170	258	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#148	314	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1979	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2000	New South Wales, Australia	female	#87	87	Insufficient	Not yet available
1999	New South Wales, Australia	female	#89	90	Insufficient	Not yet available
2000	New Zealand	female	#66	64	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#111	18	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#146	13	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#488	8	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#505	7	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#424	7	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#340	9	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#279	12	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	8	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#238	14	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#179	20	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#194	18	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 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #66, first reached in 2000.

It held a top-100 place in 2 years, 2 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 314 births, registered in England and Wales in 1999.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1999, and 4 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.

Brita · #101, 62y
Brith · #135, 25y
Britt · #28, 55y
Brittany · #14, 32y

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.

Alba · #66, 31y
Caitlyn · #66, 29y
Kaitlyn · #66, 30y
Nico · #66, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alba · #66, 31y
Caitlyn · #66, 29y
Darcie · #66, 30y
Kaitlyn · #66, 30y

Britney was ranked #66 in New Zealand · Girls in 2000. 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.

Britney 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 Britney without appearing here.

Britney moved ahead of

Ellinor Compare
In 1998 they stood at #3174 and #2152 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #148 and #3900.
Freddie Compare
In 1999 they stood at #3174 and #2411 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #170 and #3247.
George Compare
In 1998 they stood at #3174 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #148 and #3225.
Debra Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5669 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Britney

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2449 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #1286.
Liv Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1520 and #1584 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2636 and #1117.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2449 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #1785.
Blake Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2636 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2969 and #1893.

Moved the opposite way to Britney

Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Britney went from #148 to #3015 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Britney went from #148 to #3015 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.
Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Britney went from #357 to #3015 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Britney went from #821 to #3015 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.

Moved the same way as Britney

Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Britney went from #1979 to #3598 and Josefine from #3848 to #5687.
Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Britney went from #170 to #3015 and Hayden from #3912 to #5891.
Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Britney went from #500 to #3015 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.
Aimee Compare
Between 1999 and 2017 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Britney went from #194 to #734 and Aimee from #68 to #172.

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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #66 in New Zealand in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Britney

Britney at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Britney across 4 official records

Britney by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Britney appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Britney at a glance

Britney across 4 official records

Britney by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Britney appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Britney

Britney and the names beside it

Britney moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Britney

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