Given name & surname
Brit
“friendship with God”
Brit is a feminine given name. It is used in Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Brit goes back to a word meaning “friendship with God.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
In German use, Brit is a short form of Birgit. An origin associated with Birgit is Irish.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Norwegian usage, Brit is a diminutive of Britt. In German usage, Brit is a short form of Birgit.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1921. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Brit through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 775
- 628 boys · 147 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 19 in 1970. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,354 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Brit’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Brit is a diminutive of Britt. Brit has a related form in Brett. In Norwegian usage, Brit has a conventional equivalent in the German form Brigitte.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Brit has relatives in 5 languages.
6 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Brit
- Brit MarlingAmerican actress, screenwriter and producerborn 1982
- Brit PettersenNorwegian cross-country skierborn 1961
- Brit MorganAmerican actressborn 1987
- Brit SandauneNorwegian footballerborn 1972
- Brit MorinCEO, entrepreneurborn 1985
- Brit McRobertsCanadian athletics competitorborn 1957
- Brit BennettAmerican writerborn 1990
- Brit AndresenNorwegian-born Australian architectborn 1945
- Brit BildøenNorwegian poetborn 1962
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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