Bjorn

Popularity, 1880–2025

boys named Bjorn

By the numbers

Total US births

5,255

Estimated living today

5,100

Median age today

8

Peak year

2024

Best rank

766th

Rank in 2025

829th

First recorded

1925

How old the living Bjorns are

born that year still alive today

Of the 5,255 babies given the name since 1925, about 5,100 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 3,200 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Bjorns

• Björn Borg (born 1956)Swedish tennis player
• Björn Ulvaeus (born 1945)Swedish musician; member of ABBA
• Bjørn Dæhlie (born 1967)Norwegian cross-country skier and businessman
• Björn Kuipers (born 1973)Dutch football referee
• Björn Andrésen (1955–2025)Swedish actor and musician
• Bjørn Lomborg (born 1965)Danish environmental economy author noted for his controversial views about climate change and resource scarcity
• Björn Höcke (born 1972)German right-wing extremist politician
• Björn Ferry (born 1978)Swedish biathlete

People named Bjorn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Bjorn is most common

• MN569
• CA384
• WA319
• FL176
• TX172
• CO131
• NY120
• WI103
• OR95
• UT77

Relative to how many babies each state records, Bjorn is most concentrated in Minnesota (10.1×), Washington (6.5×), Alaska (6.4×), Colorado (3.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular boys’ names the year Bjorn peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• Theodore
• James
• Henry

All the names of 2024

Bjorn elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Bjorn: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Bjorn is most concentrated in Solothurn, where 0.05% of children were given it – 28 of them.

Bjorn: rank by region

In 2023, Bjorn was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2020, Bjorn was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Bjorn appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (181st).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Bjorn by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Bjorn among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Bjorn lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 433 men called Bjorn were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 18 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 34 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.