Bronze
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- BRONZ
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #7,190 for boys
Bronze is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “copper-tin alloy, reddish brown”. In 2025 it ranked 7,190th for boys in the US (11 babies).
What does Bronze mean?
English: English word, via French from Italian bronzo
“copper-tin alloy, reddish brown”
Is Bronze a girl's or a boy's name?
Bronze is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Bronze in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,190th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 160,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 11 boys in the US were named Bronze, making it the 7,190th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the boys named Bronze in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Bronze in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,190 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,899 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,922 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,822 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,161 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,548 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,691 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,638 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,886 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,472 |
Names like Bronze
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Truce, Briggs, Cove, Ridge, Ace, Banks, Boone, Prince, Bear, Rhodes, Blaze, Case
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
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, “Bronze: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bronze, updated 20 October 2026.