Bristol

#728 for girls in 2025, 382 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 95.1% of the time

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Peak · girls
2019 · 788 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
11,043
since 1973

Bristol over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Bristol has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202020peak #390, 2019girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#728382#8,9108
2024#639463#8,9878
2023#529574#6,89712
2022#513609#8,9908
2021#453691#5,77615
2020#491621#5,69915
2019#390788#6,40613
2018#509610#4,61021
2017#490638#4,93519
2016#526590#5,78915
2015#448705#6,67612
2014#424756#4,70220
2013#418726#6,60312
2012#435718#10,7706
2011#435719#6,57812
2010#565517#3,81227
2009#666438#2,94640
2008#2,77365#4,26723
2007#4,67531#3,89326
2006#4,68530#4,22322
2005#5,26624#5,03416
2004#4,38731#5,00716
2003#4,80426#3,97621
2002#4,07131#5,13114
2001#5,82219#5,66712
2000#6,80815#5,58812
1999#6,19116#7,1398
1998#4,79622#6,8438
1997#7,74211#6,6188
1996#4,61313
1995#6,64113#8,8685
1994#6,31914#8,8005
1993#7,03812#5,7719
1992#5,71816
1991#5,00419#8,2365
1990#6,46513#6,4157
1989#8,0379
1988#9,2447
1987#4,66017#6,9515
1986#4,4579
1985#3,98320#6,5235
1984#7,3988#6,3155
1983#9,0156
1982#7,4698
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1980#6,7899
1979#6,0565
1978#5,7725
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1973#7,4356
1972#4,9865
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1919#2,8779
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1916#3,8975
1915#3,0827
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First appearance
1973

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.

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Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
46 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 2019 at #390 (788 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 17 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2009–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,130
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 61.3% of all girls named Bristol (6,767) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s6#7,435 (1973)#7,435
1980s84#3,983 (1985)#7,074
1990s136#4,796 (1998)#6,213
2000s710#666 (2009)#4,396
2010s6,767#390 (2019)#464
2020s3,340#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 2020

girls
#491
621 births · 1 in 2,603 girls
boys
#5,699
15 births · 1 in 115,072 boys

Top girls' names in 2020

  1. #1Olivia17,691
  2. #2Emma15,723
  3. #3Ava13,201
  4. #4Sophia13,105
  5. #5Charlotte13,100
  6. #6Amelia12,802
  7. #7Isabella12,226
  8. #8Mia11,269
  9. #9Evelyn9,517
  10. #10Harper8,849
  11. #491Bristol621

Top boys' names in 2020

  1. #1Liam19,865
  2. #2Noah18,464
  3. #3Oliver14,277
  4. #4Elijah13,238
  5. #5William12,676
  6. #6James12,390
  7. #7Benjamin12,264
  8. #8Lucas11,386
  9. #9Henry10,793
  10. #10Alexander10,268
  11. #5,699Bristol15
More about 2020

girls

1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 2,603 of them was named Bristol, which outranked 97.2% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Bristol
  1. #488Kaitlyn624
  2. #488Kora624
  3. #490Cameron622
  4. #491Bristol621
  5. #491Kyla621
  6. #493Armani619
  7. #494Malani618
  8. #494Nia618

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2019
Risers
  1. 1,492Avayah#2,428#936
  2. 950Denisse#1,802#852
  3. 818Jianna#1,668#850
  4. 609Capri#1,291#682
  5. 550Rosalia#1,287#737
Fallers
  1. 393Yaritza#813#1,206
  2. 271Seraphina#1,000#1,271
  3. 207Marissa#874#1,081
  4. 203Annabella#644#847
  5. 195Jayde#832#1,027

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 115,072 of them was named Bristol, which outranked 59.5% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Bristol
  1. #5,451Zebulun16
  2. #5,451Zoe16
  3. #5,451Zohaan16
  4. #5,699Bristol15
  5. #5,699Aadam15
  6. #5,699Aadhiran15
  7. #5,699Aakash15
  8. #5,980Aarnik14
  9. #5,980Aaro14
  10. #5,980Aarya14

Tied with 280 names at #5,699; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2019
Risers
  1. 587Zyair#1,548#961
  2. 567Jaxtyn#1,152#585
  3. 539Jakobe#1,372#833
  4. 473Kylo#922#449
  5. 461Ander#1,085#624
Fallers
  1. 380Vivaan#875#1,255
  2. 282Alexzander#890#1,172
  3. 268Reyansh#806#1,074
  4. 266Javion#949#1,215
  5. 224Kenny#862#1,086

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2020