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Bronson

#1,046 in 2025Boys' name

Son of the brown one

Bronson has been given to 10,693 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #1,046 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 386 recorded.

Babies named Bronson, 2025

1 in 15,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bronson: meaning, origin, and history

Son of the brown one

surname transfer

What Bronson means

Bronson means “son of the brown one”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Middle English Brun (“a man named Brown's”) + son.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Bronson (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Bronson is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Bronson comes through Middle English Brun.

Bronson is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,693 boys were recorded with the name Bronson between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 386 in 2015; its best national rank was #667 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #854 in 2020 to #1,046 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #667 in 2015 to #1,046 in 2025.

How common is Bronson?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 15,700
211 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,090
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,046
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,892 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bronson 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,892 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bronson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bronsons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bronson was born before 2006 — so the typical Bronson is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,428
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (3,286).

Is Bronson 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
−11
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−192
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−379
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.7%
Peak was 2015 (386)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#667
2015

Spellings of Bronson

Bronson is not the most common spelling — Brandon is, with 82.1% against Bronson's 1.1%.

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 Bronson is used

Across 2016–2025, Bronson was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 1,370 boys, against 1 in 6,461 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).

273 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 1,370
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 2,174
  3. 3Ohio1 in 3,226
  4. 4Indiana1 in 3,846
  5. 5Nevada1 in 3,846
  6. 6Arizona1 in 4,167
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 4,167
  8. 8Idaho1 in 4,545

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, Bronson is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 84% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Bronson around the world

Where Bronson 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2012–2012
    #616
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #916
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Bronson

People whose public names include Bronson, 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.

Bronson by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,046
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 192
Best rank ever
#667
2015
Peak year
2015
386 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,693
Count in 2025
211

Names similar to Bronson

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

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Names with a curve like Bronson

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

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Sibling names for Bronson

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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