Bristol
Bristol was given to 382 girls in 2025, #728 among girls’ names; 11,616 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,500 Americans named Bristol and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bristol by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bristol?
#728 among girls’ names, 2025
Bristol fell from #448 in 2015 to #728 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.39 to 0.24 per 1,000.
801 babies in 2019, the peak
Bristol peaked in 2019, when 801 babies were given it (788 girls, #390 among girls’ names). The 390 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 49% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 382 | #728 | 0.24 |
| 2024 | 463 | #639 | 0.29 |
| 2023 | 574 | #529 | 0.36 |
| 2022 | 609 | #513 | 0.37 |
| 2021 | 691 | #453 | 0.42 |
| 2020 | 621 | #491 | 0.38 |
| 2019 | 788 | #390 | 0.47 |
| 2018 | 610 | #510 | 0.36 |
| 2017 | 638 | #490 | 0.37 |
| 2016 | 590 | #526 | 0.33 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 705 | #448 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 756 | #424 | 0.42 |
| 2013 | 726 | #418 | 0.41 |
| 2012 | 718 | #435 | 0.41 |
| 2011 | 719 | #435 | 0.41 |
| 2010 | 517 | #565 | 0.29 |
| 2009 | 438 | #666 | 0.24 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,775 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,705 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,703 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,294 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,405 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,816 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,081 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,847 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,854 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,230 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,817 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,837 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,694 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,367 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,090 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,754 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,014 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,508 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,121 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,360 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,678 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 20 | #3,996 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,481 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,153 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,561 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,851 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,526 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bristol a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,616 Americans recorded as Bristol, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 382 girls and 8 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bristol: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bristol, and how old are they?
11,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,616 Americans ever recorded as Bristol. The median Bristol alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 7,629 people named Bristol (7,137 women and girls, 492 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,277 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 28 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 223 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,960 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,280 |
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 Bristol born?
The states with the most babies named Bristol are Texas, North Carolina and Ohio, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 37 | #803 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 20 | #542 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 17 | #596 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 17 | #917 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 17 | #619 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 17 | #456 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #599 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 15 | #450 | 1.7× |
| Missouri | 15 | #394 | 1.4× |
| Iowa | 13 | #260 | 2.1× |
Where Bristol is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bristol is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1915 it was given 2.6 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 girls’ 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 Bristol with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 14,193 babies since 1880, Bristol is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 390 of their 450 babies (87%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bristol
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 Bristol and names like it
- Compare Bristol and BrystolBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBristol peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bristol since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Bristol.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bristol alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.