Meaning not yet researched.
Bjorn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 298 in 2025. Its best rank was #766 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #766 in 2024; #829 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bjorn in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#829 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #766.
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Bjorn: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 298 boys in 2025. Peak: #766 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 331 (2024).
In 2025, 298 US boys were named Bjorn, making it the 829th most common boys’ name of the year, down 63 places from #766 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 331 boys named Bjorn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #766, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 331. For comparison, it was #1,602 in 2015 and #3,741 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bjorn in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 5 babies. In all, 5,255 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,895 babies named Bjorn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,773 US boys were named Bjorn; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 331. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,732 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bjorn ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #175 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bear (3,356 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Beorn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Beorn (87).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Bjorn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 7 | #175 | — |
| Minnesota | 23 | #264 | #508 |
| Idaho | 7 | #333 | — |
| Colorado | 17 | #366 | — |
| Oregon | 10 | #380 | #500 |
| Washington | 15 | #476 | #602 |
| Utah | 9 | #480 | #611 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #488 | — |
| Michigan | 12 | #643 | — |
| Indiana | 9 | #671 | — |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #710 | — |
| Missouri | 7 | #718 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #784 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #788 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #808 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #855 | — |
| Florida | 14 | #964 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #983 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,003 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,136 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,261 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,306 | #1,901 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,421 | #2,148 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 298 | #829 |
| 2024 | — | — | 331 | #766 |
| 2023 | — | — | 314 | #795 |
| 2022 | — | — | 323 | #782 |
| 2021 | — | — | 327 | #766 |
| 2020 | — | — | 302 | #777 |
| 2019 | — | — | 254 | #868 |
| 2018 | — | — | 251 | #870 |
| 2017 | — | — | 220 | #947 |
| 2016 | — | — | 153 | #1,223 |
| 2015 | — | — | 100 | #1,602 |
| 2014 | — | — | 63 | #2,156 |
| 2013 | — | — | 51 | #2,425 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,185 |
| 2011 | — | — | 49 | #2,512 |
| 2010 | — | — | 53 | #2,378 |
| 2009 | — | — | 42 | #2,849 |
| 2008 | — | — | 51 | #2,471 |
| 2007 | — | — | 65 | #2,094 |
| 2006 | — | — | 55 | #2,287 |
| 2005 | — | — | 59 | #2,086 |
| 2004 | — | — | 68 | #1,817 |
| 2003 | — | — | 42 | #2,475 |
| 2002 | — | — | 48 | #2,198 |
| 2001 | — | — | 65 | #1,746 |
| 2000 | — | — | 55 | #1,896 |
| 1999 | — | — | 41 | #2,233 |
| 1998 | — | — | 51 | #1,902 |
| 1997 | — | — | 40 | #2,168 |
| 1996 | — | — | 32 | #2,446 |
| 1995 | — | — | 39 | #2,108 |
| 1994 | — | — | 36 | #2,225 |
| 1993 | — | — | 52 | #1,680 |
| 1992 | — | — | 37 | #2,090 |
| 1991 | — | — | 38 | #1,986 |
| 1990 | — | — | 37 | #2,015 |
| 1989 | — | — | 58 | #1,435 |
| 1988 | — | — | 48 | #1,528 |
| 1987 | — | — | 34 | #1,867 |
| 1986 | — | — | 62 | #1,218 |
| 1985 | — | — | 52 | #1,333 |
| 1984 | — | — | 60 | #1,175 |
| 1983 | — | — | 55 | #1,240 |
| 1982 | — | — | 61 | #1,179 |
| 1981 | — | — | 80 | #1,015 |
| 1980 | — | — | 88 | #958 |
| 1979 | — | — | 61 | #1,155 |
| 1978 | — | — | 65 | #1,079 |
| 1977 | — | — | 75 | #990 |
| 1976 | — | — | 45 | #1,321 |
| 1975 | — | — | 44 | #1,305 |
| 1974 | — | — | 22 | #1,993 |
| 1973 | — | — | 18 | #2,229 |
| 1972 | — | — | 17 | #2,254 |
| 1971 | — | — | 22 | #1,922 |
| 1970 | — | — | 28 | #1,620 |
| 1969 | — | — | 18 | #1,986 |
| 1968 | — | — | 21 | #1,738 |
| 1967 | — | — | 21 | #1,714 |
| 1966 | — | — | 13 | #2,227 |
| 1965 | — | — | 13 | #2,281 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,319 |
| 1963 | — | — | 18 | #1,906 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,522 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,120 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #2,891 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,036 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #2,994 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #3,877 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,765 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,741 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,481 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,270 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).