Bronx
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #1,132 for boys in 2025, 187 births
Given to boys 94.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 187 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,388since 2003
Bronx over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #1,132 | 187 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #1,290 | 152 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #1,205 | 165 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #1,135 | 185 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | #1,200 | 161 |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 | #1,262 | 145 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #1,157 | 168 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #1,168 | 164 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #1,219 | 150 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #1,389 | 126 |
| 2015 | — | #1,491 | 111 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #1,340 | 129 |
| 2013 | — | #1,557 | 101 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,466 | 110 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,429 | 115 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,536 | 105 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,925 | 74 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,070 | 14 | |
| 2007 | — | #10,921 | 6 | |
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| 2005 | — | #11,472 | 5 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,245 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bronx! It came in at #7,245, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2005–2006, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Bronx is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#421 · 1 in 2,032
- Mississippi#472 · 1 in 2,223
- Maryland#675 · 1 in 4,418
- Missouri#686 · 1 in 4,372
- Ohio#698 · 1 in 4,863
Best ever in a state: #233 in District of Columbia, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #421 | 10 | 1 in 2,032 |
| Mississippi | #472 | 6 | 1 in 2,223 |
| Maryland | #675 | 6 | 1 in 4,418 |
| Missouri | #686 | 7 | 1 in 4,372 |
| Ohio | #698 | 12 | 1 in 4,863 |
| Louisiana | #795 | 5 | 1 in 4,771 |
| Michigan | #873 | 7 | 1 in 6,632 |
| Virginia | #963 | 5 | 1 in 8,150 |
| New Jersey | #980 | 5 | 1 in 8,171 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,065 | 6 | 1 in 9,701 |
| Illinois | #1,322 | 5 | 1 in 12,386 |
| Texas | #1,429 | 11 | 1 in 16,015 |
| Florida | #1,701 | 5 | 1 in 19,335 |
| California | #1,725 | 9 | 1 in 23,968 |
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See more about Bronx
- 158 spots since 2024 (#1,290 → #1,132)
- 130 spots since 2020 (#1,262 → #1,132)
- 359 spots since 2015 (#1,491 → #1,132)
- Debuted 2003
- Peaked 2025 at #1,132 (187 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,134 boys born in 2025 were named Bronx (0.01%)
- 53.6% of all boys named Bronx (1,279) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 114 | #1,925 (2009) | #7,930 |
| 2010s | 1,279 | #1,157 (2019) | #1,375 |
| 2020s | 995 | #1,132 (2025) | #1,204 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bronx in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 115,097 of them was named Bronx, which outranked 59.7% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,092Zissel16
- #7,092Zully16
- #7,092Zyiah16
- #7,442Bronx15
- #7,442Aalijah15
- #7,442Abriel15
- #7,442Adalei15
- #7,840Aava14
- #7,840Aaylah14
- #7,840Abbi14
Tied with 397 names at #7,442; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 12,340 of them was named Bronx, which outranked 91.5% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,213Deegan151
- #1,213Elmer151
- #1,213Kolt151
- #1,219Bronx150
- #1,219Aditya150
- #1,219Boaz150
- #1,219Braeden150
- #1,232Advik149
- #1,232Mariano149
- #1,232Teagan149
Tied with 12 names at #1,219; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.