Name meaning and origin
Brittany
English: From the region of Brittany, France
Pronounced BRIT-ə-nee
Where the name comes from
- EnglishFrom the region of Brittany, FranceFrench Bretagne, named for the Britons who settled there after the fall of the Western Roman EmpireA modern given name taken from the name of the French region. It came into common use in America in the early 1970s and reached third place for girls by 1989.
Brittany across traditions
- United States. SSA #7 girls’ name of the 1990s (190,826 births); in New Mexico’s girls’ top 10 in 1993.
Forms in other languages
Britney, Brittney, Britany
Brittany in letter-number systems
Hebrew, Greek and other traditions gave every letter a number, and read meaning into the totals. These are the counts, computed; the readings are inside the Innerverse.
291
Hebrew Standard
3
Hebrew Ordinal
109
English Simple
654
English Sumerian
107
English Reverse
1163
Greek Isopsephy
2
Chaldean
1
Pythagorean
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