Given name & surname
Bror
“brother”
Bror is a masculine given name. It is used in Swedish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Old Norse.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bror through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 17
- 17 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1923. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bror’s family of names
Bror has an affectionate form in Brolle. Bror has a related form in Broder.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bror
- Bror MellbergSwedish footballer (1923–2004)
- Bror Yngve SjöstedtSwedish naturalist (1866-1948)
- Bror FockSwedish long-distance runner (1888-1964)
- Bror Brennersailor (1855-1923)
- Bror Emil HildebrandSwedish archaeologist (1806–1884)
- Bror van der ZijdeDutch bobsledderborn 1989
- Bror BlumeDanish footballerborn 1992
- Bror ÖstmanSwedish ski jumper (1928-1992)
- Bror AbelliSwedish director, actor and film exhibitor (1880–1962)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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