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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Brighton

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#1,872

up +114 places

2025 births

84

up +6 births

All-time births

3,013

3% of them in 2025

More common than

94%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2012
157 births
Best rank
#1,163
in 2012
First recorded
1983
#5,569 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2012
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
40 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2012157#1,163Peak
  2. 2014153#1,203
  3. 2015152#1,210
  4. 2013147#1,221
  5. 2011138#1,252

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,163 in 2012 · peak births 157 in 2012

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 58% boys■ 42% girls

3,013 boys · 2,148 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Brighton has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.