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 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#433 · 1 in 2,166
- Louisiana#788 · 1 in 4,836
- Washington#929 · 1 in 7,185
- Ohio#1,045 · 1 in 9,960
- Illinois#1,192 · 1 in 11,086
Best ever in a state: #233 in District of Columbia, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #433 | 10 | 1 in 2,166 |
| Louisiana | #788 | 5 | 1 in 4,836 |
| Washington | #929 | 5 | 1 in 7,185 |
| Ohio | #1,045 | 6 | 1 in 9,960 |
| Illinois | #1,192 | 6 | 1 in 11,086 |
| California | #1,625 | 10 | 1 in 23,049 |
| Texas | #1,677 | 8 | 1 in 22,205 |
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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 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 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 17,245 of them was named Bronx, which outranked 89.7% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,462Jenson111
- #1,462Treyton111
- #1,462Wiley111
- #1,466Bronx110
- #1,466Clint110
- #1,466Ervin110
- #1,466Freddie110
- #1,478Cordell109
- #1,478Cy109
- #1,478Dandre109
Tied with 11 names at #1,466; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.