Bristol
#728 for girls in 2025, 382 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 95.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 788 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,043since 1973
Bristol over time
Rank among girls' names. Bristol has never cracked the top 300 here.
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 | #728 | 382 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #639 | 463 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #529 | 574 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #513 | 609 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #453 | 691 | #5,776 | 15 |
| 2020 | #491 | 621 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #390 | 788 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #509 | 610 | #4,610 | 21 |
| 2017 | #490 | 638 | #4,935 | 19 |
| 2016 | #526 | 590 | #5,789 | 15 |
| 2015 | #448 | 705 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #424 | 756 | #4,702 | 20 |
| 2013 | #418 | 726 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #435 | 718 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #435 | 719 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #565 | 517 | #3,812 | 27 |
| 2009 | #666 | 438 | #2,946 | 40 |
| 2008 | #2,773 | 65 | #4,267 | 23 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | #3,893 | 26 |
| 2006 | #4,685 | 30 | #4,223 | 22 |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #4,387 | 31 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #4,804 | 26 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #4,071 | 31 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | — | #4,613 | 13 | |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,004 | 19 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | — | #4,457 | 9 | |
| 1985 | #3,983 | 20 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
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| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | — | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
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| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
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| 1919 | — | #2,877 | 9 | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,082 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bristol! It came in at #7,435, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1979, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Bristol is popular in 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#151 · 1 in 510
- Iowa#151 · 1 in 581
- Kentucky#154 · 1 in 617
- Maine#157 · 1 in 508
- South Dakota#160 · 1 in 450
Best ever in a state: #62 in West Virginia, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #151 | 22 | 1 in 581 |
| West Virginia | #151 | 13 | 1 in 510 |
| Kentucky | #154 | 30 | 1 in 617 |
| Maine | #157 | 7 | 1 in 508 |
| South Dakota | #160 | 7 | 1 in 450 |
| Idaho | #163 | 11 | 1 in 562 |
| Montana | #167 | 6 | 1 in 469 |
| Kansas | #191 | 18 | 1 in 715 |
| Arkansas | #204 | 14 | 1 in 807 |
| Nebraska | #228 | 10 | 1 in 787 |
| South Carolina | #229 | 18 | 1 in 973 |
| Alabama | #255 | 17 | 1 in 1,099 |
| Indiana | #273 | 26 | 1 in 1,148 |
| Ohio | #274 | 42 | 1 in 1,252 |
| Tennessee | #288 | 24 | 1 in 1,239 |
| Missouri | #298 | 21 | 1 in 1,287 |
| Oklahoma | #300 | 14 | 1 in 1,189 |
| Georgia | #308 | 33 | 1 in 1,411 |
| North Carolina | #310 | 31 | 1 in 1,429 |
| Michigan | #314 | 28 | 1 in 1,487 |
| Minnesota | #340 | 16 | 1 in 1,510 |
| Wisconsin | #350 | 15 | 1 in 1,538 |
| Colorado | #359 | 15 | 1 in 1,515 |
| Virginia | #364 | 22 | 1 in 1,649 |
| Mississippi | #367 | 8 | 1 in 1,364 |
| Washington | #385 | 17 | 1 in 1,754 |
| Pennsylvania | #419 | 25 | 1 in 2,083 |
| Florida | #480 | 32 | 1 in 2,536 |
| Utah | #486 | 8 | 1 in 2,208 |
| Oregon | #502 | 7 | 1 in 2,145 |
| Texas | #516 | 61 | 1 in 2,639 |
| Louisiana | #629 | 7 | 1 in 2,879 |
| Maryland | #656 | 7 | 1 in 3,360 |
| Illinois | #658 | 16 | 1 in 3,622 |
| Arizona | #772 | 8 | 1 in 3,841 |
| California | #1,046 | 30 | 1 in 6,839 |
| New York | #1,435 | 9 | 1 in 10,140 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Bristol
- 89 spots since 2024 (#639 → #728)
- 237 spots since 2020 (#491 → #728)
- 280 spots since 2015 (#448 → #728)
- Biggest jump: 2,107 spots in 2009 (#2,773 → #666)
- Biggest drop: 110 spots in 2024 (#529 → #639)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2019 at #390 (788 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2009–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,130 girls born in 2019 were named Bristol (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,208 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 61.3% of all girls named Bristol (6,767) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #7,435 (1973) | #7,435 |
| 1980s | 84 | #3,983 (1985) | #7,074 |
| 1990s | 136 | #4,796 (1998) | #6,213 |
| 2000s | 710 | #666 (2009) | #4,396 |
| 2010s | 6,767 | #390 (2019) | #464 |
| 2020s | 3,340 | #453 (2021) | #559 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bristol in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 2,417 of them was named Bristol, which outranked 97.8% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 157,632 of them was named Bristol, which outranked 53.1% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,241Zevin13
- #6,241Ziare13
- #6,241Zyshawn13
- #6,603Bristol12
- #6,603Aadarsh12
- #6,603Aaliyah12
- #6,603Aarron12
- #7,026Aaidyn11
- #7,026Aalijah11
- #7,026Abdalrahman11
Tied with 422 names at #6,603; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.