# Bjorn (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bjorn/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,255 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,255 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 589, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 49 | 2,512 |
| 2012 | 35 | 3,185 |
| 2013 | 51 | 2,425 |
| 2014 | 63 | 2,156 |
| 2015 | 100 | 1,602 |
| 2016 | 153 | 1,223 |
| 2017 | 220 | 947 |
| 2018 | 251 | 870 |
| 2019 | 254 | 868 |
| 2020 | 302 | 777 |
| 2021 | 327 | 766 |
| 2022 | 323 | 782 |
| 2023 | 314 | 795 |
| 2024 | 331 | 766 |
| 2025 | 298 | 829 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2012 | 7 | 2,721 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,459 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,511 |
| 2016 | 23 | 1,187 |
| 2017 | 34 | 906 |
| 2018 | 28 | 1,013 |
| 2019 | 46 | 723 |
| 2020 | 38 | 812 |
| 2021 | 55 | 659 |
| 2022 | 55 | 640 |
| 2023 | 58 | 614 |
| 2024 | 41 | 800 |
| 2025 | 70 | 556 |

## People named Bjorn

- Björn Kuipers, Dutch football referee
- Björn Engels, Belgian association football player
- Björn Leukemans, Belgian road bicycle racer
- Björn Vleminckx, Belgian footballer
- Björn Kircheisen, German Nordic combined skier
- Bjorn Fratangelo, American tennis player
- Björn Bach, canoeist
- Björn Goldschmidt, Canoe racer
- Bjorn Meijer, Dutch footballer
- Björn Johansson, cyclist, bronze medalist in the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Björn Thurau, German cyclist
- Björn Kurtén, Finnish paleontologist (1924-1988)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.