Entry № 1652 · French origin

Brittany Brittany — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BRIT-ah-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"From Brittany (peaked #3 in 1989; the French Celtic region)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "from brittany (peaked #3 in 1989; the french celtic region)".

Brittany is from the French Bretagne — the northwestern French Celtic region settled by Britons fleeing Anglo-Saxon Britain in the 5th-6th centuries. Baby One More Time (1998).

From Brittany (peaked #3 in 1989; the French Celtic region) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Brittany
Transliteration
Brittany
Pronunciation
/ ˈbrɪt.ə.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Brittany stands.

Brittany does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Brittanys before her.

Real people
Brittany Murphy
American actress.
1977 – 2009
Brittany Howard
American Grammy singer.
born 1988
Brittney Griner
American WNBA champion.
born 1990
In fiction
Brittany
Various 1990s American films.

Names connected to Brittany.

The number behind Brittany.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Brittany reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.