| The girl name Britta [ syll. brit-ta, br-i-tta ] is pronounced as BRIHT-ah KEY. Britta is primarily used in the German language and its language of origin is Celtic. A form of Britta is the German variant spelling Brita. Britta is a variant form of the English, Irish, and Scottish name Bridget. Britta is uncommon as a baby girl name. At the height of its usage in 1986, 0.010% of baby girls were given the name Britta. It was #861 in rank then. The baby name has seen a substantial fall in frequency since then, and is now used on a very modest scale. In 2007, within the family of girl names directly linked to Britta, the English, Irish, and Scottish Bridget was the most widely used. Baby names that sound like Britta include the German and Scandinavian Berit, the English, German, and Italian Berta, the French Bertha, the English Bertie, the English Birdie, the German Brita, the German Berte, the French Berthe, the German and Scandinavian Birte, the German and Scandinavian Birthe, and the Dutch Britt. KEY: approx English pronunciation for Britta: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"
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