Bjorn

Where Bjorn comes from

Bjorn hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1925
    First appearance
    #4,197 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1993
    Bjorn Fratangelo born
    American tennis player
  3. 2003
    Bjorn Meijer born
    Dutch footballer
  4. 2021
    Peak, #765
    327 babies named Bjorn — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Bjorn Fratangelo · American tennis player, born 1993
  • Bjorn Meijer · Dutch footballer, born 2003
  • Bjorn Kristensen · Maltese footballer, born 1993
  • Bjorn Fortuin · South African cricketer, born 1994
  • Bjorn van den Ende · Dutch rower, born 1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.