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Brittney vs Britzy

American parents have registered 82,468 Brittneys since 1880, against 81 Britzys. Brittney is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Brittney against Britzy, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Brittney Britzy

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

Brittney has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1958 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Brittney had 360 and Britzy had 27.

Side by side

  Brittney Britzy
Total US births 82,46881
Most in one year 7,88327
Babies in 2025 25under 5
Estimated living today 81,00080
Median age today 3416
Peak year 19892007
Best rank 41st girls5,230th girls
Rank in 2025 5,099thunranked
First recorded 19582007
Girls / boys 82,203 / 26581 / 0

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 Brittneys alive today are over 34; half the Britzys are over 16. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Brittney and Britzy.