Bronx
Bronx was given to 187 boys in 2025, #1,133 among boys’ names; 2,529 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,510 Americans named Bronx and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bronx by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bronx?
#1,133 among boys’ names, 2025
Bronx rose from #1,495 in 2015 to #1,133 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.06 to 0.11 per 1,000.
200 babies in 2022, the peak
Bronx peaked in 2022, when 200 babies were given it (185 boys, #1,135 among boys’ names). The 194 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 97% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 187 | #1,133 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 152 | #1,291 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,205 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 185 | #1,135 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 161 | #1,201 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 145 | #1,266 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 168 | #1,157 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 164 | #1,168 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 150 | #1,222 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 126 | #1,392 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 111 | #1,495 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 129 | #1,340 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 101 | #1,557 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 110 | #1,466 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 115 | #1,430 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 105 | #1,536 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 74 | #1,924 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,107 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,110 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,694 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,134 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,310 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bronx a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,529 Americans recorded as Bronx, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls and 187 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bronx: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bronx, and how old are they?
2,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,529 Americans ever recorded as Bronx. The median Bronx alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,274 people named Bronx (56 women and girls, 1,218 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,477 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,070 |
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 Bronx born?
The states with the most babies named Bronx are Utah, Texas and Ohio, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 19 | #266 | 4.0× |
| Texas | 15 | #1,304 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 10 | #810 | 1.4× |
| California | 9 | #1,706 | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 9 | #492 | 3.2× |
| Michigan | 9 | #778 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 9 | #926 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #927 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,499 | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 6 | #800 | 0.9× |
Where Bronx is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bronx is most over-represented in Utah: since 2003 it was given 4.0 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 Bronx 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 2,590 babies since 1880, Bronx is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 194 of their 199 babies (97%), 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 Bronx
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 Bronx and names like it
- Compare Bronx and BronxxBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBronx peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bronx since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Bronx.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bronx alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.