Bronislaw
Bronislaw is a name with a single cultural origin: Polish.
- Polish
Meaning & Origin of Bronislaw
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Bronislaw is a name with a single cultural origin: Polish.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Polish
The Story of Bronislaw
Bronislaw first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1908, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1918: 26 births, good for #1,404 nationwide. About 60% of every Bronislaw on record arrived during the 1910s, its defining decade. Bronislaw last appeared in the published SSA data in 1931, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 247 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1900s to the 2020s.
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About the name Bronislaw
Bronislaw is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1908 and has accumulated 247 births in the dataset. Bronislaw's peak popularity came in 1918 when it ranked #1,404. Use the chart and map above to compare Bronislaw's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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