# Bristol (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bristol/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,616 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 573 / 11,043 (95% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 719 | 435 |
| 2012 | 718 | 435 |
| 2013 | 726 | 418 |
| 2014 | 756 | 424 |
| 2015 | 705 | 448 |
| 2016 | 590 | 526 |
| 2017 | 638 | 490 |
| 2018 | 610 | 510 |
| 2019 | 788 | 390 |
| 2020 | 621 | 491 |
| 2021 | 691 | 453 |
| 2022 | 609 | 513 |
| 2023 | 574 | 529 |
| 2024 | 463 | 639 |
| 2025 | 382 | 728 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 6,648 |
| 2012 | 6 | 10,983 |
| 2013 | 12 | 6,658 |
| 2014 | 20 | 4,721 |
| 2015 | 12 | 6,731 |
| 2016 | 15 | 5,825 |
| 2017 | 19 | 4,969 |
| 2018 | 21 | 4,625 |
| 2019 | 13 | 6,464 |
| 2020 | 15 | 5,745 |
| 2021 | 15 | 5,805 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,110 |
| 2023 | 12 | 6,958 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,118 |
| 2025 | 8 | 9,045 |

## People named Bristol

- DeWitt Bristol Brace, American physicist (1859–1905)

## 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.