Brittany

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Britney in NL Netherlands, PH Philippines, PE Peru and 4 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●

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

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◐

Brittany is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name116K records spelled Brittany33 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Ecuador, France

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Bretana, Bretanha, Bretaña, Bretagna, Brittány

• Swahili given name6.0K records spelled Brittany4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, South Africa

  Also written Bretagne

• Malay given name5.8K records spelled Brittany4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Canada, Malaysia

  Languages: Malay, Indonesian, Malagasy

  Also written Bretagne

• Greek given name2.0K records spelled Brittany2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Greece, Canada

  Also written Βρετανη

• Hungarian given name1.5K records spelled Brittany6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Finland, Canada

  Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Bretagne

49 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●

Brittany is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A cultural region, historical province, and peninsula in northwest France.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In French, Nom anglais lié à la Bretagne; du latin Britannia, « Bretagne ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In French, Origine anglaise, « originaire de (Grande-) Bretagne ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• Piccola Bretagna

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

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) — 63 years between 1963–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Brittany Danielb. 1976USAmerican actress
• Brittany Murphyb. 1977USAmerican actress and singer (1977–2009)
• Brittany Ishibashib. 1980USAmerican actress
• Brittany Snowb. 1986USAmerican actress and model
• Brittany Allenb. 1986CACanadian actress
• Allie Hazeb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic performer (b. 1987)
• Brittany Howardb. 1988USAmerican singer
• Brittany Boweb. 1988USAmerican speed skater
• Brittany Curranb. 1990USAmerican actress
• Brittany Brownb. 1995USAmerican sprinter

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 · 494 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Brittany?

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

In which country does Brittany have the most bearers?

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

Where is Brittany most common?

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

How common is Brittany compared with other names?

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

Is Brittany a male or female name?

Brittany 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 Brittany mean?

Recorded meaning: English place name used as a given name, from the region Brittany; ultimately Latin 'Britannia'.