Bronislaw
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bronislaw has been given to 247 babies in the U.S. since 1908. 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 1918, with 26 recorded.
Babies named Bronislaw, 1931
1 in 421,000
Bronislaw 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Bronislaw?
Bronislaw had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1931, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1931
- 1 in 421,000
- 5 of 2,104,333 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 208,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1931
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 291,724 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bronislaw sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1931 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 291,724 children born in 1931 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bronislaw. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bronislaws were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bronislaw was born before 1918 — so the typical Bronislaw is around 107 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 59.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 59.9% of all recorded uses (148).
Is Bronislaw 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 1918 (26)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.5% average annual change
Where Bronislaw is used
Across 1910–2025, Bronislaw was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 361,349 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Massachusetts1 in 100,000
- 2New York1 in —
- 3Pennsylvania1 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. Bronislaw has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bronislaw around the world
Where Bronislaw 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.
- France1921–1952#1,205in 1952
- South Australia1952–1967#552in 1967
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bronislaw by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bronislaw
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bronislaw
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.