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Bronc

Boy · BRONK · English

Bronc is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “wild horse”. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).

What does Bronc mean?

English: short for bronco, from Spanish bronco 'rough, wild'

“wild horse”

From bronc, cowboy slang for a bronco, an untamed horse; the word comes from Spanish bronco 'rough, wild'.

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Is Bronc a girl's or a boy's name?

Bronc is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Bronc in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,690among boys
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 280,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Bronc, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 13 boys. It first appears in the records in 1976.

Half of all the boys named Bronc in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

1976Busiest: 13 in 20132025
Bronc in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20256#10,690
20246#10,930
20236#10,815
20220–
20218#8,820
20207#9,548
20195#12,138
20180–
20179#8,136
20165#12,180
201513#6,320
20146#10,711
201313#6,236
20129#8,152
201110#7,495
20107#9,686
20097#9,859
20080–
20079#8,169
20060–
20057#9,108
20046#9,941
20035#10,886
20020–
20017#8,332
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19765#5,584

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