Bijou
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- BEE-zhoo
- Origin
- French
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Bijou is a girls' name of French origin, meaning “jewel”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Bijou mean?
French: French word, from Breton bizou 'ring'
“jewel”
Is Bijou a girl's or a boy's name?
Bijou is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Bijou in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Bijou, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Bijou in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Bijou in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,725 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,432 |
| 2010 | 22 | #5,975 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,548 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,234 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,495 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,043 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Names like Bijou
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Arleth Salem Bella Selah Esme Kaliyah Aaliyah Ayla Baila Baylor Tatum Zariah
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Bijou: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bijou, updated 20 October 2026.