Bjorn
Bjorn was given to 298 boys in 2025, #829 among boys’ names; 5,255 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,090 Americans named Bjorn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bjorn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bjorn?
#829 among boys’ names, 2025
Bjorn rose from #1,602 in 2015 to #829 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.17 per 1,000.
331 babies in 2024, the peak
Bjorn peaked in 2024, when 331 boys were given it, #766 among boys’ names. The 298 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 298 | #829 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 331 | #766 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 314 | #795 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 323 | #782 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 327 | #766 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 302 | #777 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 254 | #868 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 251 | #870 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 220 | #947 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 153 | #1,223 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100 | #1,602 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,154 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,424 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,182 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 49 | #2,511 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 53 | #2,377 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 42 | #2,848 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,470 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,094 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 55 | #2,286 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,082 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 68 | #1,814 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 42 | #2,471 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 48 | #2,194 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 65 | #1,742 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 55 | #1,892 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 41 | #2,230 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 51 | #1,899 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,165 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 32 | #2,441 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,103 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,220 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 52 | #1,675 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 37 | #2,085 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 38 | #1,980 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 37 | #2,010 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 58 | #1,430 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 48 | #1,523 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 34 | #1,864 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 62 | #1,217 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 52 | #1,332 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,174 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 55 | #1,240 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,178 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 80 | #1,015 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 88 | #958 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 61 | #1,155 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 75 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,321 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,305 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 22 | #1,993 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 18 | #2,227 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,254 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 22 | #1,921 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 28 | #1,619 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 18 | #1,985 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 21 | #1,737 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 21 | #1,713 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,226 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,280 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,318 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #1,905 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,521 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,119 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,890 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,035 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #2,993 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,876 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,764 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,739 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,479 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,268 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bjorn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bjorn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bjorn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bjorn, and how old are they?
5,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 5,255 Americans ever recorded as Bjorn. The median Bjorn alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 3,776 people named Bjorn (17 women and girls, 3,759 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,323 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 64 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 514 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 805 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,970 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Bjorn born?
The states with the most babies named Bjorn are Minnesota, Colorado and Washington, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota and Colorado and Washington are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 23 | #264 | 5.7× |
| Colorado | 17 | #366 | 1.5× |
| Washington | 15 | #476 | 2.8× |
| California | 14 | #1,306 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 14 | #964 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,421 | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 12 | #643 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #784 | 0.5× |
| New York | 10 | #1,136 | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #488 | 1.1× |
Where Bjorn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bjorn is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1925 it was given 5.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bjorn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bjorn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bjorn and names like it
- Compare Bjorn and BeauBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBjorn peaked in 2024.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bjorn since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Bjorn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bjorn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.