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Bronwyn

#3,915 in 2025Girls' name

White-breasted, through Bronwen

Bronwyn has been given to 3,729 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #3,915 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1964, with 83 recorded.

Babies named Bronwyn, 2025

1 in 89,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bronwyn: meaning, origin, and history

White-breasted, through Bronwen

Welsh

What Bronwyn means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Bronwyn is used in English. Its origins include Welsh.

Bronwyn comes through Welsh Bronwen.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bronwen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,729 girls were recorded with the name Bronwyn between 1942 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 83 in 1964; its best national rank was #1,213 in 1964.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,457 in 2020 to #3,915 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,541 in 2015 to #3,915 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 Bronwyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 43,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,915
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bronwyn 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 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bronwyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bronwyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bronwyn was born before 1992 — so the typical Bronwyn is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
17.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,560
People you could plausibly meet
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2000s — 17.8% of all recorded uses (663).

Is Bronwyn 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
−391
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−458
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−374
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.84×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.6%
Peak was 1964 (83)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,213
1964

Spellings of Bronwyn

Bronwyn is the most-used spelling, taking 47.0% of the 7,927 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Bronwyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Bronwyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 151,516 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Utah1 in 100,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 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. Bronwyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bronwyn around the world

Where Bronwyn 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
    #1,271
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1990–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–2005
    #377
    in 2005
  • Ireland
    1964–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,191
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2012
    #431
    in 2012
  • New South Wales
    1952–1980
    #100
    in 1980

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Bronwyn

People whose public names include Bronwyn, 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.

Bronwyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,915
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 458
Best rank ever
#1,213
1964
Peak year
1964
83 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,729
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Bronwyn

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

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Names with a curve like Bronwyn

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

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Sibling names for Bronwyn

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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