Bjorn
#829 for boys in 2025, 298 births
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 327 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,255since 1925
Bjorn over time
Rank among boys' names. Bjorn has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #829 | 298 |
| 2024 | #766 | 331 |
| 2023 | #795 | 314 |
| 2022 | #782 | 323 |
| 2021 | #765 | 327 |
| 2020 | #777 | 302 |
| 2019 | #868 | 254 |
| 2018 | #870 | 251 |
| 2017 | #947 | 220 |
| 2016 | #1,221 | 153 |
| 2015 | #1,599 | 100 |
| 2014 | #2,154 | 63 |
| 2013 | #2,424 | 51 |
| 2012 | #3,179 | 35 |
| 2011 | #2,504 | 49 |
| 2010 | #2,375 | 53 |
| 2009 | #2,847 | 42 |
| 2008 | #2,467 | 51 |
| 2007 | #2,094 | 65 |
| 2006 | #2,285 | 55 |
| 2005 | #2,081 | 59 |
| 2004 | #1,815 | 68 |
| 2003 | #2,470 | 42 |
| 2002 | #2,195 | 48 |
| 2001 | #1,743 | 65 |
| 2000 | #1,895 | 55 |
| 1999 | #2,231 | 41 |
| 1998 | #1,899 | 51 |
| 1997 | #2,164 | 40 |
| 1996 | #2,441 | 32 |
| 1995 | #2,102 | 39 |
| 1994 | #2,219 | 36 |
| 1993 | #1,680 | 52 |
| 1992 | #2,085 | 37 |
| 1991 | #1,983 | 38 |
| 1990 | #2,012 | 37 |
| 1989 | #1,433 | 58 |
| 1988 | #1,525 | 48 |
| 1987 | #1,864 | 34 |
| 1986 | #1,217 | 62 |
| 1985 | #1,333 | 52 |
| 1984 | #1,174 | 60 |
| 1983 | #1,239 | 55 |
| 1982 | #1,179 | 61 |
| 1981 | #1,014 | 80 |
| 1980 | #957 | 88 |
| 1979 | #1,154 | 61 |
| 1978 | #1,079 | 65 |
| 1977 | #989 | 75 |
| 1976 | #1,320 | 45 |
| 1975 | #1,304 | 44 |
| 1974 | #1,983 | 22 |
| 1973 | #2,216 | 18 |
| 1972 | #2,243 | 17 |
| 1971 | #1,916 | 22 |
| 1970 | #1,615 | 28 |
| 1969 | #1,977 | 18 |
| 1968 | #1,731 | 21 |
| 1967 | #1,711 | 21 |
| 1966 | #2,216 | 13 |
| 1965 | #2,270 | 13 |
| 1964 | #2,310 | 13 |
| 1963 | #1,902 | 18 |
| 1962 | #2,504 | 11 |
| 1961 | #3,097 | 8 |
| 1960 | #2,871 | 9 |
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| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
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| 1954 | #3,827 | 5 |
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| 1951 | #3,714 | 5 |
| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
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| 1944 | #3,430 | 5 |
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| 1925 | #4,197 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bjorn! It came in at #4,197, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1925–1955, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Bjorn is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#275 · 1 in 3,891
- Washington#392 · 1 in 4,234
- California#940 · 1 in 17,973
Best ever in a state: #94 in Alaska, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #275 | 8 | 1 in 3,891 |
| Washington | #392 | 7 | 1 in 4,234 |
| California | #940 | 10 | 1 in 17,973 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bjorn
- 63 spots since 2024 (#766 → #829)
- 52 spots since 2020 (#777 → #829)
- 770 spots since 2015 (#1,599 → #829)
- Biggest jump: 331 spots in 1977 (#1,320 → #989)
- Biggest drop: 90 spots in 1978 (#989 → #1,079)
- Debuted 1925
- Peaked 2021 at #765 (327 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2017–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,205 boys born in 2024 were named Bjorn (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,732 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #765 in 2021, was only 1 in 5,350 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.1% of all boys named Bjorn (1,895) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,197 (1925) | #4,197 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,430 (1944) | #3,430 |
| 1950s | 28 | #2,969 (1956) | #3,637 |
| 1960s | 145 | #1,711 (1967) | #2,259 |
| 1970s | 397 | #989 (1977) | #1,582 |
| 1980s | 598 | #957 (1980) | #1,294 |
| 1990s | 403 | #1,680 (1993) | #2,082 |
| 2000s | 550 | #1,743 (2001) | #2,189 |
| 2010s | 1,229 | #868 (2019) | #1,814 |
| 2020s | 1,895 | #765 (2021) | #786 |
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.
Bjorn in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 28,222 of them was named Bjorn, which outranked 83.7% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,137Oren62
- #1,137Romeo62
- #1,137Tate62
- #1,154Bjorn61
- #1,154Benton61
- #1,154Brien61
- #1,154Christina61
- #1,169Barney60
- #1,169Cheyenne60
- #1,169Jorje60
Tied with 14 names at #1,154; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.