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Brittania
Pronounced bri-TAN-ee-uh /brɪˈtæn.i.ə/Medium
Meaning: Brittania is a spelling of Britannia, the Latin name for Britain and its long-standing female personification. As a modern given name it doubles as an elaboration of Brittany, the wildly popular name of its era, giving it both a classical and a contemporary reading.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Brittania draws on two sources at once. Its spine is Britannia, the Latin name for Britain and the classical female figure — helmet, shield and trident — who has stood for the nation on coinage for centuries. In its modern American use it also reads as an elaboration of Brittany, the enormously popular name of the same decades, lengthened to a grander four beats.
The name crested around 1980, riding the crest of the Brittany wave while reaching back to a classical image. It has stayed uncommon in this fuller form, and a Brittania today wears a name that is at once antique in reference and very much of its nineteen-eighties moment.
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What does the name Brittania mean?
Brittania is a form of Britannia, the Latin name and personification of Britain, and reads as an elaboration of Brittany.
How do you pronounce Brittania?
It's said bri-TAN-ee-uh /brɪˈtæn.i.ə/ — four syllables, stress on the second.
Is Brittania a boy or girl name?
Brittania is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Brittania?
Brittania was an uncommon name that crested in the early nineteen-eighties alongside the Brittany wave and has stayed rare in this fuller form.