Bristol vs Brittany
American parents have registered 361,751 Brittanys since 1880, against 11,616 Bristols. But in 2025 it was Bristol that was commoner, 390 babies to 281.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Bristol Brittany
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 70 years in which either name was published, Brittany for 50 years and Bristol for 20 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.
Side by side
| Bristol | Brittany | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 11,616 | 361,751 |
| Most in one year | 801 | 38,008 |
| Babies in 2025 | 390 | 281 |
| Estimated living today | 11,000 | 353,000 |
| Median age today | 9 | 34 |
| Peak year | 2019 | 1989 |
| Best rank | 390th girls | 3rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 728th | 928th |
| First recorded | 1915 | 1963 |
| Girls / boys | 11,043 / 573 | 360,673 / 1,078 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Brittanys alive today are over 34; half the Bristols are over 9. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Bristol Alaska (3.8×), North Dakota (2.7×), Kansas (2.6×)
- Brittany Florida (1.6×), Georgia (1.5×), Alaska (1.5×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bristol and Brittany.