Is Brittney in the Bible? No, It Is Named for Brittany in France

No one named Brittney appears in the Bible. Brittney is a spelling of Brittany, a girl’s name taken from the name of a region in the northwest of France. The region is named for the Britons who settled there after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The name has no Hebrew or biblical meaning.

What does Brittney mean?

Brittney has the same meaning as Brittany: it names the place. French calls the region Bretagne and Breton calls it Breizh, and both come from the Latin Britannia, “land of the Britons,” the name the Romans gave to the island of Great Britain. Some name books give the meaning as “from Britain.” The given name comes more directly from the French region, which took the island’s name with the people who crossed from it.

Britons from the southwest of the island began crossing the Channel to the Roman region of Armorica toward the end of the fourth century. More followed in the fifth and sixth centuries, many of them escaping the Anglo-Saxon invasions of Britain. By the sixth century the peninsula where they settled was also called Britannia, and French still tells the two apart as Bretagne and Grande-Bretagne.

Is Brittany or Britain in the Bible?

No. Neither the name nor the place appears in Scripture, and Britain is never mentioned either. The farthest west the New Testament looks is Spain: Paul told the Christians in Rome that he hoped to visit them on his way there (Romans 15:24, 28), and the New Testament does not say whether he reached it.

Brittany also has no Hebrew form or Hebrew meaning. Its history runs through Latin, French and the Celtic languages of Britain, not through the languages of the Bible.

Brittney, Brittany and Britney

Brittany came into common use as a first name in the United States in the early 1970s and climbed to third place for girls by 1989, where it stayed until 1991. It has since fallen almost as far as it rose, to 928th in 2025. Brittney followed the same curve on a smaller scale. It entered the list of the 1,000 most common girls’ names in 1977, reached its highest rank, 41st, in 1989, and dropped off the list after 2007. Britney, another spelling, is best known from the American singer Britney Spears, born in 1981.

Related reading

• Is Brittany a biblical name?
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