How Many People Are Named Bronte?
people named Bronte are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 372,314 people in the US has this name
Based on 932 babies named Bronte in Social Security records from 1969 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
131 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a surname, an Anglicized form of Irish Ó Proinntigh meaning "descendant of Proinnteach". The given name Proinnteach meant "bestower" in Gaelic. The Brontë sisters - Charlotte, Emily, and Anne - were 19th-century English novelists. Their father changed the spelling of the family surname from Brunty to Brontë, possibly to make it coincide with Greek βροντη meaning "thunder".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Bronte, 98.1% were girls and 1.9% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Bronte alive today is about 25 years old, and 56% are under 30. Half of them were between 20 and 32 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Bronte first appears in the records in 1969 and was given most often in 1992, to 131 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1969 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Bronte has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,292, in 1992.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,292 (1992) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,430 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Bronte alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Bronte were born in California than in any other state: about 122 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Bronte was given about 4.1 times as often in California.
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