Britt
Britt is a boy's name that peaked in 1960, when it was the 654th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 6,600 Britts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 48.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Britt
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Britt crossed from girls to boys in 1986, having already crossed in 1971, and has stayed there for 28 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 80% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 65 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,626
- Estimated living today
- 6,600
- Median age today
- 48
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 654th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1886
- Girls / boys
- 2,916 / 4,710
How old the living Britts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,626 babies given the name since 1886, about 6,600 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 320 of them are children and 740 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1977 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Britts
- Britt Ekland (born 1942)Swedish actress
- Britt Robertson (born 1990)American actress
- Britt Assombalonga (born 1992)Congolese association football player
- Britt Lower (born 1985)American actress
- Britt Pettersen (born 1961)Norwegian cross-country skier
- Britt Strandberg (born 1934)cross-country skier
- Britt McKillip (born 1991)Canadian actress
- Britt Nicole (born 1985)American Christian singer-songwriter
People named Britt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Britt is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Britt is most concentrated in Texas (2.7×), Minnesota (2.6×), Washington (2.1×), Georgia (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular boys’ names the year Britt peaked:
Britt elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Britt | 7,126 | 32nd |
| Belgium girls | Britt | 2,777 | 18th |
| France girls | Britt | 25 | 2,848th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Britt: rank by region
In 2018, Britt was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Britt | 738 | 6 |
In 2017, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Britt appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (240th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Britt among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Britt | 10,521 | 11,493 |
| Finland girls | Britt | 210 | 359 |
| the Netherlands boys | Britt | — | 22 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Britt against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.