Male name
Björn
589 births (England and Wales, 1996–2025), peaking in 2025. Expression number: 5.
Origin
First name borrowed from Swedish in the 1930s, meaning the bear or the brown one.Translated by Arcanes from the German Wiktionary, entry “Björn”, text and translation under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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How many babies received it
From the official birth registers.
In England and Wales
Peak in 2025: 70 births. 589 births from 1996 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2020s. It really came into use around 2016. It is still given: 279 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, Open Government Licence v3.0.
In the United States
Peak in 2024: 331 births. 5,255 births from 1880 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2020s. It really came into use around 1967. It is still given: 1,593 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, public domain.
Elsewhere in the world
The name in the birth records of the 10 countries we track. The period covered varies from country to country.
| Country | Births | Period | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 2,039* | 1915–2025 | — |
| France | 615 | 1900–2025 | — |
| Austria | 420 | 1984–2025 | — |
| Berlin | 131 | 2012–2023 | — |
* These are the people living in the country, counted by year of birth, not the number of births.
Source: Federal Statistical Office, First names of the population by year of birth, free use with attribution; INSEE, Fichier des prénoms, Etalab Open Licence 2.0; Statistik Austria, Vornamen, CC BY 4.0; Open Data Berlin, Häufige Vornamen, CC BY 3.0 DE (every name a child carries, not only the first).
The numbers of the name
Each letter has a value: A = 1, B = 2… I = 9, then J = 1 again (Pythagorean method). We add them up, then reduce to a single digit, except 11, 22 and 33.
■ vowel · ■ consonant
Expression
All the letters: talents, the way you act.
5
freedom, change, movement
2 + 1 + 6 + 9 + 5 = 23 → 5
Soul
The vowels: what drives you deep down.
6
responsibility, harmony, commitment to others
6 = 6
Personality
The consonants: what others notice first.
8
power, achievement, your relationship with money
2 + 1 + 9 + 5 = 17 → 8
- Digits missing from the name
- 3, 4, 7, 8
- Most frequent digit
- 1 · initiative, independence, beginnings
The meaning of the numbers comes from numerological tradition; it isn't a measure of your personality. A full portrait needs your first and middle names, your last name at birth, and your date of birth. How we calculate
Your name and theirs
The number of each name, and the number of the bond, which comes from adding them together. A symbolic game: what your two names say together, to be read as a metaphor, not as a verdict on your relationship.