Bronwen
Bronwen was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,566 among girls’ names; 872 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bronwen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bronwen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bronwen is “a female given name from Welsh.”
Borrowed from Welsh Bronwen.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bronwen?
#9,566 among girls’ names, 2025
Bronwen rose from #13,251 in 2015 to #9,566 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 6.2 per million.
25 babies in 1980, the peak
Bronwen peaked in 1980, when 25 girls were given it, #3,331 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,566 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,542 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,411 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,859 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,961 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,035 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,251 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,904 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,720 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,206 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | #13,715 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,823 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,786 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,722 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,070 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,833 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,572 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,604 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,372 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,105 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,614 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,165 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,132 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,195 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,164 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,989 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,704 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,628 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,048 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,575 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,124 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,366 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,996 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,480 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,435 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,941 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,184 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,185 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,174 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,331 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,450 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,400 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,079 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,695 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,067 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,751 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,492 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,559 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,072 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,596 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,331 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,470 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,661 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,528 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,527 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,007 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,947 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,295 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,911 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,714 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,223 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,956 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,876 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,916 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,508 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,271 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,528 | 3.8 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,921 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,315 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,984 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,778 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,443 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,932 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,409 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,274 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,479 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,608 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bronwen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bronwen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bronwen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bronwen, and how old are they?
An estimated 790 Americans named Bronwen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 27 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 917 people named Bronwen (908 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 789 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,601 babies since 1880, Bronwen is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 47 babies (21%), again the second 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 Bronwen
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 Bronwen and names like it
- Compare Bronwen and BronwynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBronwen peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bronwen since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Bronwen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Bronwen.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Bronwen alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.