Bristol
Bristol is ranked 635th among girls in 2024 (463 births). Its best rank was 390th, in 2019.
- Rank in 2024
- #635down 106 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4630.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 2019788 births
- Best rank
- #390in 2019
- Since 1973
- 11,224people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,659 girls have been named Bristol in the United States since 1973, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 788 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 424 → 635).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 63%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 565 boys have also been given it, 5.0% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2019, its biggest year
Bristol was the 390th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Bristol
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Luxpeak 2014
- Londynpeak 2014
- Londynnpeak 2015
- Brynleypeak 2017
- Zivapeak 2011
- Manhapeak 2023
- Adelynpeak 2015
- Adalynpeak 2015
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.