In 2025, 37 US girls were named Bronwyn, making it the 3,916th most common girls’ name of the year, down 392 places from #3,524 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 44 girls named Bronwyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,213, reached in 1964. That year also had the most girls given the name: 83. For comparison, it was #3,541 in 2015 and #1,683 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bronwyn in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 9 babies. In all, 3,729 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 663 babies named Bronwyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 471 US girls were named Bronwyn; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,440 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Bronwen and Bronwynn are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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