Bristol

Where Bristol comes from

Bristol 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. 1973
    First appearance
    #7,435 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1990
    Bristol Palin born
    daughter of Sarah Palin
  3. 1997
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 2019
    Peak, #390
    788 babies named Bristol — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2025
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #728.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Bristol Palin · daughter of Sarah Palin, born 1990

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.