Brit
Brit is a name with a single cultural origin: Norwegian.
- Norwegian
Meaning & Origin of Brit
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Brit is a name with a single cultural origin: Norwegian.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Norwegian
The Story of Brit
As a girl name
Brit first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 1968, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1982: 9 births, good for #6,889 nationwide. About 31% of every Brit on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Brit last appeared in the published SSA data in 2014, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 147 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
Brit first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a boy name in 1921, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1970: 19 births, good for #2,059 nationwide. About 20% of every Brit on record arrived during the 1960s, its defining decade. Brit last appeared in the published SSA data in 2020, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 628 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1920s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Brit
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Brit. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Brit
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About the name Brit
Brit is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1921 and has accumulated 628 births in the dataset. Brit's peak popularity came in 1970 when it ranked #2,059. Use the chart and map above to compare Brit's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.