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Bronte

Girls' name

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Bronte has been given to 932 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1992, with 131 recorded.

Babies named Bronte, 2024

1 in 239,000

Bronte over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bronte: meaning, origin, and history

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Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bronte means

Bronte may mean “generous”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bronte is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɹɑn.ti/ and /ˈbɹɒn.ti/ for Bronte.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 914 girls were recorded with the name Bronte between 1969 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 131 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,292 in 1992.

In the United States, 18 boys were recorded with the name Bronte between 1993 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1994; its best national rank was #6,435 in 1994.

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.

How common is Bronte?

Bronte had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 239,000
14 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 116,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
165,505 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bronte sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 165,505 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bronte. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brontes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bronte was born before 1997 — so the typical Bronte is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
60.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
914
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (548).

Is Bronte 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (131)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,292
1992

Spellings of Bronte

Bronte is not the most common spelling — Brooke is, with 94.9% against Bronte's 0.44%.

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 Bronte is used

Across 1910–2025, Bronte was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 316,810 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 100,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Utah1 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. Bronte has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bronte around the world

Where Bronte 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
    #526
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1994–2024
    #476
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2021–2021
    #446
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1944–2012
    #871
    in 2012
  • New South Wales
    1994–2003
    #97
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0.

Bronte by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,292
1992
Peak year
1992
131 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
914
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,435
1994
Peak year
1994
8 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bronte

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

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Sibling names for Bronte

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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