Bronwyn
Bronwyn was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,915 among girls’ names; 3,729 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,490 Americans named Bronwyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 18 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bronwyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bronwyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bronwyn 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 Bronwyn?
#3,915 among girls’ names, 2025
Bronwyn fell from #3,541 in 2015 to #3,915 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.6 to 23.0 per million.
83 babies in 1964, the peak
Bronwyn peaked in 1964, when 83 girls were given it, #1,213 among girls’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,915 | 23.0 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,524 | 27.2 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,646 | 26.2 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,043 | 32.9 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,746 | 24.4 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,457 | 27.2 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,401 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,691 | 37.6 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,397 | 26.6 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,066 | 30.5 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,541 | 24.6 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,235 | 28.0 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,325 | 27.4 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,174 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 57 | #2,993 | 32.4 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,812 | 34.9 |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,489 | 41.4 |
| 2008 | 49 | #3,384 | 25.9 |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,436 | 40.0 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,709 | 34.7 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,702 | 33.6 |
| 2004 | 68 | #2,482 | 37.0 |
| 2003 | 63 | #2,557 | 34.5 |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,354 | 37.8 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,408 | 36.1 |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,257 | 38.0 |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,205 | 38.3 |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,309 | 34.5 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,201 | 35.6 |
| 1996 | 54 | #2,398 | 30.8 |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,214 | 34.1 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,626 | 26.3 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,054 | 21.0 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,385 | 29.3 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,789 | 22.4 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,161 | 18.4 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,048 | 19.0 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,227 | 16.8 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,614 | 21.9 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,732 | 20.4 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,555 | 22.1 |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,386 | 23.8 |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,519 | 21.5 |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,904 | 18.3 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,571 | 21.6 |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,286 | 25.9 |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,980 | 32.4 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,054 | 30.0 |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,802 | 36.5 |
| 1976 | 43 | #2,030 | 29.3 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,235 | 25.4 |
| 1974 | 60 | #1,580 | 40.9 |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,650 | 37.7 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,607 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,829 | 28.8 |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,528 | 36.6 |
| 1969 | 58 | #1,564 | 34.4 |
| 1968 | 35 | #2,024 | 21.3 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,786 | 25.4 |
| 1966 | 55 | #1,491 | 32.5 |
| 1965 | 61 | #1,407 | 34.6 |
| 1964 | 83 | #1,213 | 43.8 |
| 1963 | 63 | #1,404 | 32.7 |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,731 | 21.9 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,923 | 17.8 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,824 | 9.4 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,116 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,762 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 30 | #1,992 | 14.7 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,460 | 10.5 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,909 | 15.9 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,309 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,079 | 13.3 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,581 | 20.0 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,484 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,682 | 18.1 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,703 | 18.1 |
| 1948 | 34 | #1,601 | 20.0 |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,700 | 18.1 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,866 | 15.3 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,880 | 15.3 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,163 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,062 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,212 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bronwyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bronwyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bronwyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bronwyn, and how old are they?
3,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 3,729 Americans ever recorded as Bronwyn. The median Bronwyn alive today is 32 years old; half are between 18 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 3,514 people named Bronwyn (3,480 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,309 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 26 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 482 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 725 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 632 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 609 |
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 Bronwyn born?
The states with the most babies named Bronwyn are California, Texas and New York, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 265 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 100 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 92 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 35 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Utah | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Bronwyn 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,601 babies since 1880, Bronwyn is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 47 babies (79%), 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 Bronwyn
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 Bronwyn and names like it
- Compare Bronwyn and BronwenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sBronwyn peaked in 1964.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bronwyn since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Bronwyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Bronwyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bronwyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.