Meaning not yet researched.
Bristol: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 382 in 2025. Its best rank was #390 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #390 in 2019; #728 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Bristol in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#728 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #390.
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Bristol: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 382 girls in 2025. Peak: #390 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 788 (2019).
In 2025, 382 US girls were named Bristol, making it the 728th most common girls’ name of the year, down 89 places from #639 in 2024. That is 81 fewer than the 463 girls named Bristol in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #390, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 788. For comparison, it was #448 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bristol in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 7 babies. In all, 11,616 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 4.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,924 babies named Bristol.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,966 US girls were named Bristol; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 788. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,208 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bristol ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #158 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Brystol (1,354 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brystal, Bristal and Bristyl 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: Brystal (774), Bristal (286), Bristyl (163).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bristol in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 10 | #158 | #123 |
| Iowa | 13 | #260 | #278 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #378 | #394 |
| Alabama | 12 | #393 | #312 |
| Missouri | 15 | #394 | #285 |
| Kansas | 8 | #410 | #185 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #417 | #134 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #433 | #325 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #448 | #388 |
| Indiana | 15 | #450 | #248 |
| Tennessee | 17 | #456 | #254 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #486 | #397 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #542 | #363 |
| Ohio | 17 | #596 | #296 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #599 | #585 |
| Georgia | 17 | #619 | #296 |
| Colorado | 8 | #650 | #389 |
| Michigan | 11 | #698 | #445 |
| Virginia | 10 | #707 | #390 |
| Maryland | 6 | #745 | #801 |
| Washington | 8 | #749 | #463 |
| Texas | 37 | #803 | #523 |
| Florida | 17 | #917 | #612 |
| Illinois | 9 | #943 | #442 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,071 | #717 |
| New York | 6 | #1,874 | #1,400 |
| California | 8 | #2,307 | #1,120 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 382 | #728 | 8 | #9,045 |
| 2024 | 463 | #639 | 8 | #9,118 |
| 2023 | 574 | #529 | 12 | #6,958 |
| 2022 | 609 | #513 | 8 | #9,110 |
| 2021 | 691 | #453 | 15 | #5,805 |
| 2020 | 621 | #491 | 15 | #5,745 |
| 2019 | 788 | #390 | 13 | #6,464 |
| 2018 | 610 | #510 | 21 | #4,625 |
| 2017 | 638 | #490 | 19 | #4,969 |
| 2016 | 590 | #526 | 15 | #5,825 |
| 2015 | 705 | #448 | 12 | #6,731 |
| 2014 | 756 | #424 | 20 | #4,721 |
| 2013 | 726 | #418 | 12 | #6,658 |
| 2012 | 718 | #435 | 6 | #10,983 |
| 2011 | 719 | #435 | 12 | #6,648 |
| 2010 | 517 | #565 | 27 | #3,824 |
| 2009 | 438 | #666 | 40 | #2,955 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,775 | 23 | #4,282 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,706 | 26 | #3,913 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,704 | 22 | #4,242 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,299 | 16 | #5,070 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,409 | 16 | #5,042 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,821 | 21 | #3,994 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,085 | 14 | #5,167 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,852 | 12 | #5,716 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,861 | 12 | #5,618 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,236 | 8 | #7,239 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,820 | 8 | #6,930 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,842 | 8 | #6,690 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,640 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,699 | 5 | #9,036 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,373 | 5 | #8,963 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,096 | 9 | #5,819 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,760 | — | — |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,020 | 5 | #8,359 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,514 | 7 | #6,487 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,127 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,365 | — | — |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,682 | 5 | #7,082 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,511 |
| 1985 | 20 | #3,997 | 5 | #6,644 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,483 | 5 | #6,442 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,156 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,563 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,852 | — | — |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,165 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,911 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,528 | — | — |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,074 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,016 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,625 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,065 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #2,907 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,253 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #3,976 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,126 |
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).