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Brystol

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Brystol is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “place at the bridge”. In 2025 it ranked 3,576th for girls in the US (42 babies).

What does Brystol mean?

English: respelling of Bristol, the English city

“place at the bridge”

Bristol in south-west England was recorded in the 11th century as Brycgstow, Old English for 'place at the bridge'.

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

Brystol is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 42 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Brystol in the US?

Rank in 2025
#3,576among girls
Babies in 2025
42about 1 in 38,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 40% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 42 girls in the US were named Brystol, making it the 3,576th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,196th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 114 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.

Half of all the girls named Brystol in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 430 girls in the US were given Brystol or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #668, up from #3,576 for this spelling alone.

2003Busiest: 114 in 20122025
Brystol in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202542#3,576
202439#3,822
202358#2,891
202259#2,856
202175#2,384
202082#2,196
201968#2,561
201883#2,217
201784#2,236
201690#2,149
201597#2,025
2014110#1,838
2013105#1,900
2012114#1,791
2011103#1,927
201065#2,726
200948#3,408
20085#17,498
20070–
20060–
20050–
20046#14,172
20037#12,401

Names like Brystol

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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