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How popular is “Brittain” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brittain” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brittain” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Brittain” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Brittain” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Brittain” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Brittain” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brittain” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 9 0.000002961 9 -100%
1977 10 0.000003148 5 5 0%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1981 24 0.000006938 17 7 42%
1982 14 0.000003991 6 8 -14%
1983 13 0.000003754 8 5 23%
1984 18 0.000005159 9 9 0%
1985 14 0.000003923 6 8 -14%
1986 22 0.000006185 8 14 -27%
1987 16 0.000004438 8 8 0%
1988 22 0.000005954 11 11 0%
1989 23 0.000005983 11 12 -4%
1990 18 0.000004554 18 -100%
1991 28 0.000007188 13 15 -7%
1992 19 0.000004946 9 10 -5%
1993 23 0.0000061 8 15 -30%
1994 24 0.000006456 8 16 -33%
1995 15 0.000004096 6 9 -20%
1996 21 0.000005758 11 10 5%
1997 14 0.000003861 14 -100%
1998 23 0.000006253 7 16 -39%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
2000 16 0.000004233 5 11 -38%
2001 18 0.000004808 9 9 0%
2002 12 0.00000321 12 -100%
2003 17 0.000004471 7 10 -18%
2004 19 0.000004973 7 12 -26%
2005 12 0.000003121 7 5 17%
2006 17 0.000004297 9 8 6%
2007 16 0.000004002 9 7 13%
2008 11 0.000002799 5 6 -9%
2009 16 0.000004188 6 10 -25%
2010 17 0.0000046 10 7 18%
2011 16 0.000004374 11 5 38%
2012 19 0.000005195 9 10 -5%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 100%
2014 17 0.000004587 12 5 41%
2015 19 0.000005134 12 7 26%
2016 11 0.000002998 5 6 -9%
2017 13 0.000003635 7 6 8%
2018 13 0.000003697 7 6 8%
2019 11 0.000003169 5 6 -9%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 -100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 100%

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