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Bronx: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 187 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,133 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 96% of babies named Bronx in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,133 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Bronx: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 187 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,133 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 187 (2025).
In 2025, 187 US boys were named Bronx, making it the 1,133rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 158 places from #1,291 in 2024. That is 35 more than the 152 boys named Bronx in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,133, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 187. For comparison, it was #1,495 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bronx in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2003 with 9 babies. In all, 2,529 US babies have been given the name, 5.6% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,332 babies named Bronx.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,603 US boys were named Bronx; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 187. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,134 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bronx ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #266 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 19 | #266 | #480 |
| Idaho | 5 | #445 | — |
| Nebraska | 5 | #446 | #443 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #492 | #638 |
| Iowa | 6 | #506 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #533 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #604 | — |
| Michigan | 9 | #778 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #800 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #810 | #1,230 |
| Georgia | 9 | #926 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #927 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #988 | #1,013 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,164 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,304 | #1,663 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,499 | — |
| California | 9 | #1,706 | #1,462 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,145 | 187 | #1,133 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,991 | 152 | #1,291 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,579 | 165 | #1,205 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,341 | 185 | #1,135 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,328 | 161 | #1,201 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,354 | 145 | #1,266 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,770 | 168 | #1,157 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,726 | 164 | #1,168 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,521 | 150 | #1,222 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,150 | 126 | #1,392 |
| 2015 | — | — | 111 | #1,495 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,031 | 129 | #1,340 |
| 2013 | — | — | 101 | #1,557 |
| 2012 | — | — | 110 | #1,466 |
| 2011 | — | — | 115 | #1,430 |
| 2010 | — | — | 105 | #1,536 |
| 2009 | — | — | 74 | #1,925 |
| 2008 | — | — | 14 | #6,112 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #11,116 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #11,702 |
| 2004 | — | — | 6 | #10,140 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,317 |
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).