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Girl · English place name, from Latin Britannia
Brittany
Say it: BRIT-uh-nee
Meaning
From the English name of the French region Bretagne, which was named after the Britons who settled there in the early Middle Ages.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
An American coinage-from-place-name of the 1970s, it surged into the US top ten in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1980s
In the United States
- 360,152 babies given this name since 1963
- At its height in 1989, about 1 in 49 girls
- 264 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Britney, Brittney, Britany
| French | Bretagne |
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Famous bearers
- Britney Spears, US singer
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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