Bronte

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Bronte: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Bronte: Recorded since 1994, it reached #92 in 1998, and it stood at #476 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
31years from first to last
#92highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#473
1997	#374
1998	#408
1999	#515
2000	#557
2001	#642
2002	#679
2003	#699
2004	#772
2005	#931
2006	#890
2007	#1020
2008	#1176
2009	#821
2010	#758
2011	#841
2012	#1075
2013	#999
2014	#1016
2015	#942
2016	#1031
2017	#814
2018	#1314
2019	#1119
2020	#1065
2021	#1069
2022	#1215
2023	#727
2024	#526

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #476 among girls in Scotland, #526 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1994–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1994
First recorded at #100 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1994 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1994–2003
Highest recorded position: #92 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 1998 (recorded 1994–2003).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #526 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Bronte appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 1,221 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, from 1994.

Bronte across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Bronte's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#473 (1996)	#374 (1997)	#526 (2024)	29 of 29	1,221 (1996–2024)	86 (1997)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#100 (1994)	#92 (1998)	#97 (2003)	6 of 10	497 (1994–2003)	88 (1998)

Bronte by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Bronte in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	277	4 of 10	69
2000s	362	10 of 10	36
2010s	368	10 of 10	37
2020sbusiest	214	5 of 10	43

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 43 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1996 and 1997, when recorded births rose by 27, from 59 to 86.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Bronte appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1994 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #92 in New South Wales, Australia in 1998.

Bronte's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#526	74	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#727	50	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1215	27	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1069	32	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1065	31	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1119	30	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1314	25	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#814	47	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1031	34	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#942	38	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1016	35	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#999	36	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1075	32	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#841	43	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#758	48	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#821	42	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1176	25	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1020	29	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#890	33	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#931	29	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#772	36	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#699	40	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#679	39	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#642	40	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#557	49	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#515	56	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#408	76	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#374	86	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#473	59	High	Verified
2003	New South Wales, Australia	female	#97	78	Insufficient	Not yet available
1999	New South Wales, Australia	female	#99	80	Insufficient	Not yet available
1998	New South Wales, Australia	female	#92	88	Insufficient	Not yet available
1997	New South Wales, Australia	female	#96	83	Insufficient	Not yet available
1996	New South Wales, Australia	female	#100	82	Insufficient	Not yet available
1994	New South Wales, Australia	female	#100	86	Insufficient	Not yet available
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#476	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1994 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #92, first reached in 1998.

It held a top-100 place in 6 years, 4 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 88 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1998.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 30 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Bronwen · #339, 31y
Bronwyn · #49, 70y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Anika · #93, 30y
Briana · #93, 31y
Carson · #91, 30y
Cerys · #91, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Israel · #92, 29y
Silas · #92, 30y
Anika · #93, 30y
Athena · #93, 30y

Bronte was ranked #92 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 1998. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Bronte and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Bronte without appearing here.

Bronte moved ahead of

Sinead Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1314 and #1314 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1119 and #2458.
Anita Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1215 and #1215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #727 and #2063.
Kelly Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1215 and #1215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #727 and #1774.
Christine Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1215 and #1081 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #727 and #1640.

Moved ahead of Bronte

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #841 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1075 and #284.
Maja Compare
In 2005 they stood at #931 and #951 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #890 and #456.
Mina Compare
In 2011 they stood at #841 and #959 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1075 and #722.
Astrid Compare
In 2006 they stood at #890 and #928 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #1020 and #693.

Moved the opposite way to Bronte

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bronte went from #374 to #526 while Blake went from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bronte went from #374 to #526 while Ezra went from #3824 to #1302.

Moved the same way as Bronte

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Bronte went from #473 to #727 and Kristin from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Bronte went from #473 to #727 and Therese from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Bronte went from #473 to #727 and Tracey from #783 to #5687.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Bronte went from #473 to #1069 and Carol from #802 to #3519.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1994 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #92 in New South Wales, Australia in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bronte

Bronte at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bronte across 2 official records

Bronte by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bronte appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Bronte and the names beside it

Bronte moved ahead of

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Bronte at a glance

Bronte across 2 official records

Bronte by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bronte appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Bronte

Bronte and the names beside it

Bronte moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bronte

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