Bronson
Bronson was given to 211 boys in 2025, #1,046 among boys’ names; 10,693 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,200 Americans named Bronson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bronson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bronson mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bronson is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “a man named Brown's” (Brun).
From Middle English Brun (“a man named Brown’s”) + son.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bronson?
#1,046 among boys’ names, 2025
Bronson fell from #667 in 2015 to #1,046 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.20 to 0.12 per 1,000.
386 babies in 2015, the peak
Bronson peaked in 2015, when 386 boys were given it, #667 among boys’ names. The 211 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 211 | #1,046 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 215 | #1,035 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 197 | #1,090 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 240 | #947 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 270 | #864 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 267 | #854 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 296 | #785 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 342 | #711 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 354 | #695 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 343 | #712 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 386 | #667 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 355 | #699 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 356 | #676 | 0.19 |
| 2012 | 298 | #766 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 283 | #787 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 273 | #793 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 233 | #893 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 198 | #991 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 186 | #1,021 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 179 | #1,025 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 207 | #880 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 164 | #1,006 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 153 | #1,031 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 149 | #1,026 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 160 | #958 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 181 | #872 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 148 | #971 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 166 | #873 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 163 | #862 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 165 | #845 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 185 | #787 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 174 | #802 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 150 | #862 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 187 | #761 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 168 | #791 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 218 | #684 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 179 | #737 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 176 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 181 | #678 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 143 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 124 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 132 | #752 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 97 | #892 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 95 | #917 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 98 | #901 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 86 | #969 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 81 | #984 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 83 | #950 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 80 | #954 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 72 | #980 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 75 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 74 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 61 | #1,036 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,128 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 87 | #862 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 41 | #1,232 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,750 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,273 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,490 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,554 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,692 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,689 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,730 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,437 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,063 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,062 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,048 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,545 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,488 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,900 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,778 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 15 | #1,950 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,900 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #2,944 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,091 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,262 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,550 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,681 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,690 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,152 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,202 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,074 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,142 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,140 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,708 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,111 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,628 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,032 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,228 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,828 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,744 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,788 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #3,925 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #3,867 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,505 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,827 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,059 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,788 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,253 | under 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,853 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,876 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bronson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bronson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bronson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bronson, and how old are they?
10,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 10,693 Americans ever recorded as Bronson. The median Bronson alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 8,096 people named Bronson (44 women and girls, 8,052 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,942 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 27 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 89 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 792 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,350 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,800 |
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 Bronson born?
The states with the most babies named Bronson are Texas, California and Ohio, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 17 | #1,222 | 0.6× |
| California | 16 | #1,207 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 12 | #716 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 10 | #725 | 0.8× |
| Utah | 9 | #481 | 4.8× |
| Indiana | 9 | #673 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,372 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #926 | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #631 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 7 | #819 | 0.9× |
Where Bronson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bronson is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1913 it was given 13.9 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 Bronson 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 10,955 babies since 1880, Bronson is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 211 of their 211 babies (100%), 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 Bronson
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 Bronson and names like it
- Compare Bronson and BronsenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBronson peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bronson since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Bronson: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Bronson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bronson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.