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Bronwen

#9,566 in 2025Girls' name

White-breasted, through Bronwen

Bronwen has been given to 872 babies in the U.S. since 1941. In 2025 it ranked #9,566 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Bronwen, 2025

1 in 332,000

Bronwen over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bronwen: meaning, origin, and history

White-breasted, through Bronwen

Welsh

What Bronwen means

Bronwen belongs to the name family reached through Bronwen → Bronwen. Its meaning is “white-breasted”.

Origin, language, and formation

Bronwen is used in English and Welsh. Its origins include Welsh.

Bronwen comes through Welsh Bronwen.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bronwen.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Bronwen is pronounced /brɔnwɛn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 872 girls were recorded with the name Bronwen between 1941 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1980; its best national rank was #2,778 in 1947.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,411 in 2020 to #9,566 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,251 in 2015 to #9,566 in 2025.

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 Bronwen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,566
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bronwen 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 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bronwen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bronwens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bronwen was born before 1979 — so the typical Bronwen is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
21.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
790
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 21.7% of all recorded uses (189).

Is Bronwen 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+845
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,685
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 1980 (25)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,778
1947

Spellings of Bronwen

Bronwen is not the most common spelling — Bronwyn is, with 45.7% against Bronwen's 10.7%.

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 Bronwen is used

Across 1910–2025, Bronwen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 640,511 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Bronwen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bronwen around the world

Where Bronwen 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
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1993–2007
    #744
    in 2007
  • Northern Ireland
    2002–2002
    #339
    in 2002
  • Ireland
    1970–1997
    #576
    in 1997
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #2,616
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1944–2002
    #730
    in 2002

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

Bronwen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,566
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 845
Best rank ever
#2,778
1947
Peak year
1980
25 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
872
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Bronwen

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

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Sibling names for Bronwen

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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