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Bron

#9,042 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Bronwen

Bron has been given to 424 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #9,042 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Bron, 2025

1 in 414,000

Bron over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bron: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Bronwen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bron means

Bron is a short form of Bronwen.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Bron → Bronwen → Bronwen. The family’s meaning is “white-breasted”, recorded in Welsh with the source elements bronwen.

Origin, language, and formation

Bron is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bronwen and Bronson.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 424 boys were recorded with the name Bron between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1977; its best national rank was #2,470 in 1977.

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 Bron?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,042
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bron 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bron. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bron was born before 1982 — so the typical Bron is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
26.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
424
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Choose a decade

1970s — 26.4% of all recorded uses (112).

Is Bron 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
−631
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
44.4%
Peak was 1977 (18)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,470
1977

Spellings of Bron

Bron is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 25.3% against Bron's <0.01%.

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 Bron is used

Across 1910–2025, Bron was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Bron has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bron around the world

Where Bron 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
    2021–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1985–1985
    #449
    in 1985

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bron by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,042
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,470
1977
Peak year
1977
18 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
424
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Bron

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

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Sibling names for Bron

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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