Brighten
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 19 babies a year in the US.
Brighten by the numbers
Brighten was given to 19 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 15 babies in 2010, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Brighten
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Brighten. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Brighten
Names that are said the same way as Brighten, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- BrittonBriton, one from Britain134 in the US (2017)
- Brytonfrom the settlement of the Britons64 in the US (2017)
- Britainland of the britons; place name used as given name59 in the US (2017)
- Britona native of Britain6 in the US (2017)
- Britynfrom brittany, the region; a form of Brittany5 in the US (2017)
- Brittyn29 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Brighten
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