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Bjorn

#829 in 2025Boys' name

Bear

Bjorn has been given to 5,255 babies in the U.S. since 1925. In 2025 it ranked #829 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 331 recorded.

Babies named Bjorn, 2025

1 in 11,100

Bjorn over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bjorn: meaning, origin, and history

Bear

Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Old Norse and Swedish

What Bjorn means

Bjorn means “bear”, associated with bjǫrn.

Origin, language, and formation

Bjorn is used in Cebuano. Its origins include Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Old Norse and Swedish.

Bjorn comes through Swedish Björn, Icelandic Björn, Danish Bjørn, Norwegian Bjørn and Old Norse Bjǫrn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,255 boys were recorded with the name Bjorn between 1925 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 331 in 2024; its best national rank was #766 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #777 in 2020 to #829 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,602 in 2015 to #829 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bjorn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,100
298 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,730
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#829
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,712 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bjorn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,712 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bjorn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bjorns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bjorn was born before 2016 — so the typical Bjorn is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
36.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,245
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 36.1% of all recorded uses (1,895).

Is Bjorn 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
−63
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−52
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+773
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.98×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.0%
Peak was 2024 (331)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#766
2021

Spellings of Bjorn

Bjorn is not the most common spelling — John is, with 96.5% against Bjorn's 0.10%.

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 Bjorn is used

Across 2016–2025, Bjorn was most concentrated in Alaska — about 1 in 990 boys, against 1 in 6,357 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

1101 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alaska1 in 990
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 1,163
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 1,266
  4. 4Montana1 in 1,695
  5. 5Washington1 in 1,923
  6. 6Oregon1 in 2,174
  7. 7Idaho1 in 2,222
  8. 8Colorado1 in 2,273

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Geographically, Bjorn is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 97% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Bjorn around the world

Where Bjorn 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
    1996–2025
    #556
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2023
    #728
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2016–2016
    #421
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2020–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1971–2025
    #1,458
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #886
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–1995
    #533
    in 1995

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

Notable people named Bjorn

People whose public names include Bjorn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Bjorn in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Bjorn. Linked forms have their own page here.

BearBeornBjørnÆsbiorn

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Bjorn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#829
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 52
Best rank ever
#766
2021
Peak year
2024
331 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,255
Count in 2025
298

Names similar to Bjorn

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

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Names with a curve like Bjorn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Bjorn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Bjorn

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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