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How popular is the name Bronte?
Births per year, rank history and how many Brontes are alive today.
Bronte (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 526th in 2025 with 76 babies given the name. The name peaked in 1997, when 86 babies were given the name, the 374th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1314 in 2018 before climbing back to the 526th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years.
The Bronte you are most likely to meet is around 29 years old - or else around 2: the name has two living generations. Half of all Brontes born in England and Wales are between 10 and 30, and there are at least 1,700 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Bronte - on average, only one in every 186 such rooms contains a Bronte.
How many babies are named Bronte each year?
Where does Bronte rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Bronte most popular?
Bronte peaked in 1997, when 86 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Bronte?
At least 1,700 people named Bronte born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Bronte?
Most living Brontes are between 10 and 30; the most common age is about 29. There is a second cluster around 2.
Is Bronte becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.