Bright
#4,883 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bright has been given to 449 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #4,883 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 27 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.
Babies named Bright, 2025
1 in 166,000
Bright over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Bright over time
In 2025, Bright went to 26% girls and 74% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Bright?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 166,000
- 20 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 85,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,883
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 114,896 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bright sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bright. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brights were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bright was born before 2016 — so the typical Bright is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 382
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.4% of all recorded uses (156).
Is Bright 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
- −886
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −729
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,683
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 74.1%
- Peak was 2024 (27)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.1% average annual change
Spellings of Bright
Bright is not the most common spelling — Dwight is, with 75.8% against Bright's 0.39%.
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.
Bright around the world
Where Bright 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 & Wales2002–2025#1,897in 2025
- Ireland2006–2006#596in 2006
- France2013–2025#5,001in 2025
- Canada2011–2023#2,747in 2023
- South Australia1993–1993#519in 1993
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Bright by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Bright
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bright
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.