Bror

Boys' name

Brother

Bror has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1916, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Bror, 1923

1 in 460,000

Bror over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bror: meaning, origin, and history

Brother

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bror means

Bror means “brother”, associated with bror.

Origin, language, and formation

Bror is used in Swedish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Bror between 1916 and 1923. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1916; its best national rank was #3,554 in 1916.

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 Bror?

Bror had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1923, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1923: 1 in 460,000; 5 of 2,302,410 births
Among boys only: 1 in 219,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1923: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 319,183 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Bror 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 1923 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 319,183 children born in 1923 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bror. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bror was born before 1917 — so the typical Bror is around 108 today.

Median birth year: 1917; About 108 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 70.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 70.6% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Bror 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: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1916 (6)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,554; 1916

Spellings of Bror

Bror is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 32.8% against Bror's <0.01%.

Roy32.8%408,638
Troy17.3%216,308
Bob7.5%92,986
Brad6.7%83,060
Byron6.6%82,238
Brody6.5%81,678
Brock3.5%43,540
Ron2.9%36,362

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.

Bror around the world

Where Bror 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.

Norway
1880–2025
#308
in 2025

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Bror by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,554; 1916
Peak year: 1916; 6 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 1923
All-time count: 17
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Bror

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

Brom Brox Broch Bronxx Bronis Bronte Bronko Bronny Broox Bronc Bronn Brodus Bron Bronze Brodix Bronco Brother Bromley Brocton Brosnan Bronner Broder Brodhi Brode

Sibling names for Bror

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Era Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Hettie Cecil Ona

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis Sydney Meyer

Explore around Bror

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