Britney

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Brittany in US United States, AU Australia, CA Canada and 14 more and Brittney in FR France, BR Brazil, MX Mexico and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Britney is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name30K records spelled Britney17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

  Also written Brïtnëy, Brïtney, Britnéy, Brïtnēy, Brítńęy

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Britney is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Britney och Brittany är av engelskt ursprung, bildade till Britannia, som använts som en kvinnlig personifikation av Storbritannien. En känd namnbärare är den amerikanska popsångerskan Britney Spears (f. 1981).

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In German, ) Brittney ['bntni]: in den i99oer-Jahren aus dem Englischen entlehn­ ter weibl. Vom., Nebenform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 58 years between 1968–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Britney Hamadab. 1979JPJapanese mangaka
• Britney Spearsb. 1981USAmerican singer, songwriter, actress and model (born 1981)
• Britney Stevensb. 1985USAmerican pornographic actress
• Britney Gallivanb. 1985USAmerican mathematician
• Britney Amberb. 1986USAmerican pornographic actress
• Britney Youngb. 1987JPAmerican actress
• Britney Cooperb. 1989TTcricketer
• Bibi Jonesb. 1991USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress and stripper
• Britney Mansonb. 1995RURussian-born Estonian model, singer and activist LGBT (born 1995)
• Britney Simpsonb. 1996USAmerican pair skater

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 371 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Britney?

We estimate roughly 310 thousand people bear Britney (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Britney have the most bearers?

We estimate about 302 thousand people bear Britney in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled brittany.

Where is Britney most common?

Britney is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.

How common is Britney compared with other names?

In the United States, Britney is the 220th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Britney a male or female name?

Britney is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Britney mean?

Recorded meaning: A female given name transferred from the place name, variant of Brittany.