Bronson — #1035 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Bronson

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,478 babies named Bronson between 1913 and 2024, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bronson currently holds the #1035 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 385 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bronson performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,285 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Bronson shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,042 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and Hawaii. In total, SSA state-level files list Bronson in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bronson 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 10,478 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.