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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Bright

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#4,884

down −884 places

2025 births

20

down −7 births

All-time births

406

5% of them in 2025

More common than

80%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2024
27 births
Best rank
#3,300
in 1924
First recorded
1917
#3,604 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2009
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
33 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 202427#4,000Peak
  2. 201725#4,120
  3. 201924#4,242
  4. 202024#4,158
  5. 202324#4,362

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #3,300 in 1924 · peak births 27 in 2024

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 90% boys■ 10% girls

406 boys · 43 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Bright has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.