Brystol
#3,583 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brystol has been given to 1,354 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #3,583 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 114 recorded.
Babies named Brystol, 2025
1 in 78,900
Brystol over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Brystol?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 78,900
- 42 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 38,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,583
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 54,713 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brystol sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brystol. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brystols were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brystol was born before 2016 — so the typical Brystol is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 68.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,340
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 68.6% of all recorded uses (919).
Is Brystol 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
- +250
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,384
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,557
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.43×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 36.8%
- Peak was 2012 (114)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 62.7% average annual change
Spellings of Brystol
Brystol is not the most common spelling — Crystal is, with 78.6% against Brystol's 0.32%.
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 Brystol is used
Across 2016–2025, Brystol was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 31,541 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Kentucky1 in 12,500
- 2South Carolina1 in 16,667
- 3Utah1 in 16,667
- 4North Carolina1 in 20,000
- 5Wisconsin1 in 20,000
- 6Indiana1 in 25,000
- 7Missouri1 in 25,000
- 8Tennessee1 in 25,000
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.
Brystol by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Brystol
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brystol
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.