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Bijou

#12,118 in 2025Girls' name

Jewel

Bijou has been given to 299 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #12,118 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Bijou, 2025

1 in 474,000

Bijou over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bijou: meaning, origin, and history

Jewel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bijou means

Bijou means “jewel”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bijou is used in French (African).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 299 girls were recorded with the name Bijou between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2010; its best national rank was #6,006 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,356 in 2020 to #12,118 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,265 in 2015 to #12,118 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Bijou?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,118
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bijou sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bijou. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bijous were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bijou was born before 2011 — so the typical Bijou is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
299
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Choose a decade

2010s — 42.8% of all recorded uses (128).

Is Bijou rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+3,552
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+238
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,853
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.8%
Peak was 2010 (22)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,006
2010

Spellings of Bijou

Bijou is not the most common spelling — Bintou is, with 66.6% against Bijou's 33.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Bijou is used

Across 1910–2025, Bijou was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 941,928 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bijou has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bijou around the world

Where Bijou ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2003
    #4,373
    in 2003
  • France
    2019–2019
    #7,227
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2011–2011
    #2,838
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    2006–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bijou by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,118
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 238
Best rank ever
#6,006
2010
Peak year
2010
22 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
299
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Bijou

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Bijou

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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