Brona
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brona has been given to 39 babies in the U.S. since 1921. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1921, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Brona, 1957
1 in 840,000
Brona 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Brona?
Brona had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1957, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1957
- 1 in 840,000
- 5 of 4,201,368 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 409,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1957
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 582,434 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brona sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1957 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 582,434 children born in 1957 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bronas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brona was born before 1941 — so the typical Brona is around 84 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 38.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 79.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 11
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (15).
Is Brona 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1921 (8)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Brona
Brona is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 40.1% against Brona'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 Brona is used
Across 1910–2025, Brona was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 465,694 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 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. Brona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Brona around the world
Where Brona 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.
- Northern Ireland1998–2019#424in 2019
- Ireland1964–2013#747in 2013
Popularity data from Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Central Statistics Office. NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.
Brona by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Brona
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brona
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.