Brona

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Brona: Recorded since 1964, it reached #203 in 1989, and it was last ranked in 2019.

2registrars recorded it
53times a registrar ranked it
56years from first to last
#203highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in Northern Ireland · 1998–2019

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Northern Ireland · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#351
1999	#227
2003	#225
2004	#372
2007	#413
2015	#426
2019	#424

VerifiedSource: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names.Confidence: high.

See all Northern Ireland names · Source: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names

What the data shows

FallingNorthern Ireland · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 46 of the 50 years from 1964 to 2013.

In 2007: #413 among girls in Northern Ireland, #842 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1964–2019 · NISRA. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #274 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1964–2013
Highest recorded position: #203 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1989 (recorded 1964–2013).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2019
Most recently recorded at #424 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2019.
Northern Ireland · Girls

Brona appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 46 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 414 births with the name.

Brona 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.

Brona'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#274 (1964)	#203 (1989)	#747 (2013)	46 of 50	414 (1964–2013)	20 (1989)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#351 (1998)	#225 (2003)	#424 (2019)	7 of 22	27 (1998–2019)	6 (1999)

Brona by decade in Republic of Ireland · 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 Brona in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	42	6 of 10	7
1970s	88	10 of 10	9
1980sbusiest	120	10 of 10	12
1990s	102	10 of 10	10
2000s	58	9 of 10	6
2010s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Brona 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 2 regions, from 1964 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #203 in Republic of Ireland in 1989.

Brona'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
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#225	6	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#227	6	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#582	6	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#597	6	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#312	10	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#335	8	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#261	12	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#211	16	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#345	6	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#394	6	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#273	12	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#283	11	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#240	14	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#320	9	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#338	8	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#273	12	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	8	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#203	20	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#252	15	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#242	16	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#334	8	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	7	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#230	18	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#267	14	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#355	8	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#325	10	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	4	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#330	9	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#266	14	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#391	6	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#429	4	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#321	8	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#428	4	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#292	11	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#300	9	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#239	15	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#296	8	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#351	5	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#258	9	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#268	7	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#218	11	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#325	4	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#274	6	High	Verified

Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

Where Brona is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Brona, between 1964 and 2019, in 49 of those 56 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1964–2013	46	#203 in 1989
Northern Ireland	1998–2019	7	#225 in 2003

Its high point came 14 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1989) than in Northern Ireland (2003).

No registrar recorded it for 3 years after 2009; it appears again in 2013.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1964 and 2019, ranked in 49 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #203, first reached in 1989.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 20 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1989.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 34 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.

Brogan · #188, 30y
Broghan · #348, 12y
Bronagh · #60, 61y
Bronson · #616, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Dora · #202, 44y
Humphrey · #204, 44y
Turlough · #206, 46y
Myra · #207, 49y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Katharina · #203, 53y
Noeline · #203, 10y
Dervilla · #202, 18y
Dora · #202, 44y

Brona was ranked #203 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1989. 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.

Ailish#203
Diane#203
Fionnuala#203
Maura#203
Aislinn#212
Celine#212
Lesley#212
Lindsey#212

Brona 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Brona without appearing here.

Brona moved ahead of

Carmel
In 2008 they stood at #842 and #624 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #582 and #893.
Lorraine
In 2008 they stood at #597 and #597 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #582 and #893.
Tracy
In 2008 they stood at #842 and #549 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #582 and #893.
Bernadette
In 2007 they stood at #842 and #505 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #597 and #862.

Moved ahead of Brona

Ivy
In 2012 they stood at #582 and #893 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #747 and #304.
Shania
In 2002 they stood at #312 and #406 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2003 that had become #655 and #247.
Freya
In 2002 they stood at #312 and #331 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2003 that had become #655 and #263.
Sadie
In 2002 they stood at #312 and #352 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2003 that had become #655 and #314.

Moved the opposite way to Brona

Aisling
Between 1964 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Brona went from #274 to #747 while Aisling went from #154 to #51.
Alexandra
Between 1964 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Brona went from #274 to #747 while Alexandra went from #222 to #90.
Amelia
Between 1964 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Brona went from #274 to #747 while Amelia went from #300 to #5.
Anna
Between 1964 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Brona went from #274 to #747 while Anna went from #34 to #12.

Moved the same way as Brona

Alma
Between 1964 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Brona went from #274 to #747 and Alma from #327 to #660.
Amanda
Between 1964 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Brona went from #274 to #747 and Amanda from #118 to #254.
Angela
Between 1964 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Brona went from #274 to #747 and Angela from #24 to #399.
Anita
Between 1964 and 2013 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Brona went from #274 to #747 and Anita from #130 to #540.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
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 2 regions, from 1964 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #203 in Republic of Ireland in 1989. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Brona

Brona at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Brona across 2 official records

Brona by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Brona appears in

Popularity data

Where Brona is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Brona

Brona and the names beside it

Brona moved ahead of

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Brona at a glance

Brona across 2 official records

Brona by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Brona appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Brona

Brona and the names beside it

Brona moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Brona

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