Britta
Just 27 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been named Britta this century. The name is Germanic, and means "exalted one": most Poles will never meet one.
Britta Pronunciation
Britta is pronounced BREET-tah (/ˈbritta/).
What Britta means
Where Britta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Britta grew up in Scandinavian and German mouths as a short form of Birgitta. Its origin is Germanic, and the meaning handed down is "exalted one," in Polish wywyższona, wzniosła. The name kept two blunt syllables while its longer parent stayed formal on documents.
Saint Birgitta of Sweden, born around 1303, gave the fuller name real weight across the Nordic countries, and Britta rode along as the everyday version. In Sweden and Germany it stayed common through the twentieth century, plain enough for any school bench. The sense of the exalted one sat with it that whole time, never loud about it.
On a Polish class register, Britta reads as an import, foreign but easy to say. It asks for no nickname and gives none. The meaning holds: exalted one.
How many people are named Britta
1 in 834957 women in Poland is named Britta. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8020 among female names.
Britta as a middle name
Britta is a first name for 27 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2057th, between Begüm (13) and Cathrine (13).
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#2055 Begum13
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#2056 Begüm13
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#2057 Britta13
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#2058 Cathrine13
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#2059 Chava13