Britney is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Britney is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,231 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,230 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 33,186 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Britney. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Britney is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Britney - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 112 in 1989. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Britney really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Britney was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
147 babies were named Britney in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,008,380 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Britney ranked 1,347 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The name Britney may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Britney is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,823 women in Nevada is called Britney. In total, that’s 245 women who feel addressed when the name Britney is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #409 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Britney as the answer a total of 33,186 times. This places Britney at #657 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Britney as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Britney has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.
If your name is Britney and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Britney, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Britney sounds like this:
