Bristol — #635 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Bristol

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,659 babies named Bristol between 1973 and 2024, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bristol currently holds the #635 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 788 babies received it in a single year. Bristol is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 565 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bristol performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 6,765 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Bristol shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 757 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Bristol in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bristol in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 10,659 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.