as a First Name
Mainly North American: modern coinage, taken from the traditionally Celtic-speaking region of north-west France, known in medieval Latin as Britannia, because it was settled by refugees from Cornwall and Devon following the establishment of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. Its adoption as a given name has also been influenced by Britt, of which it is sometimes regarded as the full form. In recent years it has rapidly established itself as a popular name in the English-speaking world.
| 256th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 239,670
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 353,041
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Brittany per capita
- 1989
- marked the height of its popularity
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3%
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75%
13-29
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22%
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