Bristol
Bristol is a girl's name that peaked in 2019, when it was the 390th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 728th. About 11,000 Bristols are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Bristol boys named Bristol
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,616
- Estimated living today
- 11,000
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 390th
- Rank in 2025
- 728th
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 11,043 / 573
How old the living Bristols are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,616 babies given the name since 1915, about 11,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 11,000 of them are children and 6 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 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.
Where Bristol is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bristol is most concentrated in Alaska (3.8×), North Dakota (2.7×), Kansas (2.6×), Kentucky (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular girls’ names the year Bristol peaked:
Related names
Bristol against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.