Bronx
Masculine · “From the New York borough”
Bronx is given to both — 2,388 boys and 141 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Bronx began as a family name on a stretch of farmland north of Manhattan, became a river, then a borough, and only recently a name given to children. It is one syllable, ends in a cluster of consonants that lands hard and clear, and needs no spelling out — the map already taught everyone how it goes.
How old is the name Bronx?
Bronx first appears in US birth records in 2003 — 22 years ago. The typical Bronx is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,400 people named Bronx are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Bronx most popular?
Bronx peaked in 2025, reaching #1132 nationally. Today it ranks #1132, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Bronck to Bronx
The story of Bronx
In the 1630s a Scandinavian-born settler named Jonas Bronck took up land in New Netherland, north of Manhattan island. The waterway near his farm came to be called Bronck's River, and the district around it kept the family's possessive — which is why English still says "the Bronx" with the article attached, as though the land were still theirs. The borough grew into one of the best-known place names in the country. Its use as a first name is part of a broader American habit of moving place names onto birth certificates, alongside Brooklyn, Austin and Dakota, and it belongs firmly to the recent end of that pattern rather than to any older tradition.
Meaning
From the New York borough, which takes its name from the seventeenth-century settler Jonas Bronck
The route from settler to surname to borough to given name is well documented. What the Scandinavian surname Bronck itself meant is not established.
How the name formed
- Bronck
- Bronck's River
- the Bronx
- Bronx
Pronouncing Bronx
BRONKS
One syllable, rhyming with "honks." The -nx spelling looks unusual but nobody hesitates over it, because the borough has been in print and on screen for well over a century.
Nicknames for Bronx
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2003
- Most boys named
- 2025187 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1132reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +23.0%187 in 2025, from 152
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Bronx in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio.
Bronxs among us
people named Bronx are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 9,134 born in 2025 was named Bronx
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Taven test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Bronx's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Taven climbed just as high around 2007, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Taven's path sketches the road Bronx is walking now.
Bronx sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Bronx is headed
Bronx should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Bronx beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Bronx in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Needs no spelling or pronunciation help: the borough has made this exact arrangement of letters familiar across the English-speaking world.
- One syllable, one stress, no variant spellings competing with it — what you write is what people read.
- A child with this name is very unlikely to share it with a classmate.
- Sits in a recognizable American tradition of place names used as first names, so it reads as a name rather than a word.
- The association is specific and permanent. People will assume a New York connection and often ask about it — a pleasant conversation if there is one, a repeated small explanation if there isn't.
- The borough carries decades of accumulated reputation in film, music and news, tough and glamorous by turns. Not everyone brings the same picture to it.
- It is a genuinely new given name, carried almost entirely by children, so there are no adults wearing it ahead of your child to show how it ages.
- English says "the Bronx" with the article, which invites the obvious joke. It tends to wear out quickly.
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Masculine · #1132 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Bronxs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Bronx are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Bronx in 2025?
- Bronx ranks #1132 among US boy names in 2025, with 187 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Bronx?
- About 1 in every 9,134 US boys born in 2025 was named Bronx — 187 in all.
- Will my child share the name Bronx with classmates?
- Bronx will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Bronx
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