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How popular is “Britten” in the USA?

Number of people named “Britten” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Britten” 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 “Britten” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Britten” by birth year

This chart shows how “Britten” 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
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1973 17 0.000005635 5 12 -41%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1978 20 0.000006301 8 12 -20%
1979 16 0.000004809 9 7 13%
1980 16 0.000004645 9 7 13%
1981 16 0.000004625 11 5 38%
1982 22 0.000006271 14 8 27%
1983 23 0.000006641 14 9 22%
1984 21 0.000006019 8 13 -24%
1985 23 0.000006444 7 16 -39%
1986 21 0.000005904 7 14 -33%
1987 19 0.00000527 7 12 -26%
1988 23 0.000006225 7 16 -39%
1989 20 0.000005202 9 11 -10%
1990 27 0.000006831 8 19 -41%
1991 25 0.000006418 8 17 -36%
1992 24 0.000006248 11 13 -8%
1993 25 0.000006631 11 14 -12%
1994 16 0.000004304 7 9 -13%
1995 19 0.000005188 8 11 -16%
1996 29 0.000007951 14 15 -3%
1997 17 0.000004689 7 10 -18%
1998 16 0.00000435 5 11 -38%
1999 16 0.000004332 5 11 -38%
2000 26 0.000006878 9 17 -31%
2001 32 0.000008548 7 25 -56%
2002 16 0.00000428 6 10 -25%
2003 32 0.000008416 14 18 -13%
2004 18 0.000004711 18 -100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 -100%
2006 19 0.000004803 9 10 -5%
2007 18 0.000004503 6 12 -33%
2008 21 0.000005343 7 14 -33%
2009 17 0.00000445 10 7 18%
2010 16 0.000004329 9 7 13%
2011 20 0.000005468 10 10 0%
2012 18 0.000004922 7 11 -22%
2013 20 0.000005486 6 14 -40%
2014 14 0.000003777 5 9 -29%
2015 12 0.000003242 5 7 -17%
2016 12 0.000003271 12 -100%
2017 16 0.000004474 5 11 -38%
2018 14 0.000003982 7 7 0%
2020 13 0.000003892 5 8 -23%
2021 10 0.000002952 10 -100%

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