How Many People Are Named Bjorn?
people named Bjorn are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 67,016 people in the US has this name
Based on 5,255 babies named Bjorn in Social Security records from 1925 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
331 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From an Old Norse byname meaning "bear".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
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⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Bjorn in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Bjorn alive today is about 17 years old, and 75% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 30 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Bjorn first appears in the records in 1925 and was given most often in 2024, to 331 babies. In 2025, 298 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1925 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Bjorn has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #766, in 2021 and 2024. In 2025 it ranked #829.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #829 |
| Best rank | #766 (2021 and 2024) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #789 in the 2020s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Bjorn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Bjorn were born in Minnesota than in any other state: about 553 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Bjorn was given 11.1 times as often in Minnesota, 4.9 times in Washington and 3 times in Oregon.
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