Meaning not yet researched.
Brystol: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,792 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,792 in 2012; #3,584 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brystol in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,584 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,792.
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Brystol: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,792 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 114 (2012).
In 2025, 42 US girls were named Brystol, making it the 3,584th most common girls’ name of the year, up 249 places from #3,833 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 39 girls named Brystol in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,792, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 114. For comparison, it was #2,026 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brystol in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2003 with 7 babies. In all, 1,354 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 925 babies named Brystol.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 680 US girls were named Brystol; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,268 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bristol (11,616 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Brystol in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,584 | — | — |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,833 | — | — |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,900 | — | — |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,868 | — | — |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,391 | — | — |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,199 | — | — |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,567 | — | — |
| 2018 | 83 | #2,223 | — | — |
| 2017 | 84 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 2015 | 97 | #2,026 | — | — |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,839 | — | — |
| 2013 | 105 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 2012 | 114 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,930 | — | — |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,734 | 6 | #10,963 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,420 | 8 | #9,101 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,027 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,490 | — | — |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,637 | — | — |
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).