Broc

Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938

Peak · boys
1985 · 77 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,522
since 1947

Broc over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Broc has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201991peak #1,050, 1985boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025
2024#10,9386
2023#10,8216
2022#9,8237
2021#9,7147
2020#6,29613
2019#5,15318
2018#4,47622
2017#5,29717
2016#6,05314
2015#3,68429
2014#3,37132
2013#3,40531
2012#2,90540
2011#2,62646
2010#2,87441
2009#2,75344
2008#2,10465
2007#1,86177
2006#1,66985
2005#1,80172
2004#1,374105
2003#1,56181
2002#1,52981
2001#1,61773
2000#1,56476
1999#1,48976
1998#1,81155
1997#1,62862
1996#1,90847
1995#1,70652
1994#1,51662
1993#1,55458
1992#1,49061
1991#1,41165
1990#1,058100
1989#1,07495
1988#1,20471
1987#1,17567
1986#1,06776
1985#1,05077
1984#1,11066
1983#1,78731
1982#1,81531
1981#1,99627
1980#1,72633
1979#2,15723
1978#2,79915
1977#1,90426
1976#1,74829
1975#1,78727
1974#3,12011
1973#3,01311
1972#2,81912
1971#2,55814
1970#3,07110
1969#3,5957
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1967#3,9665
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1965#3,2447
1964#2,8549
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First appearance
1947

The first year at least five boys were named Broc! It came in at #3,733, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1947–1955, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Broc
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
38 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1947
  • Peaked 1985 at #1,050 (77 births)
  • Births halved by 2013, 28 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 18,905
  • Highest: 1 in 18,905 boys born in 2004 were named Broc (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 287,148 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,050 in 1985, was only 1 in 24,003 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 30.1% of all boys named Broc (759) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s5#3,733 (1947)#3,733
1950s11#3,535 (1956)#3,635
1960s28#2,854 (1964)#3,415
1970s178#1,748 (1976)#2,498
1980s574#1,050 (1985)#1,400
1990s638#1,058 (1990)#1,557
2000s759#1,374 (2004)#1,783
2010s290#2,626 (2011)#3,984
2020s39#6,296 (2020)#9,518

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Broc in 1991

boys
#1,411
65 births · 1 in 31,082 boys

Top boys' names in 1991

  1. #1Michael60,810
  2. #2Christopher47,111
  3. #3Matthew41,647
  4. #4Joshua41,226
  5. #5Andrew31,539
  6. #6Daniel30,935
  7. #7James30,514
  8. #8David30,416
  9. #9Joseph29,840
  10. #10John27,809
  11. #1,411Broc65
More about 1991

boys

2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 31,082 of them was named Broc, which outranked 85.4% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Broc
  1. #1,396Princeton66
  2. #1,396Torrence66
  3. #1,396Wiley66
  4. #1,411Broc65
  5. #1,411Bijan65
  6. #1,411Darious65
  7. #1,411Demarkus65
  8. #1,422Adrain64
  9. #1,422Arjun64
  10. #1,422Jamey64

Tied with 10 names at #1,411; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1990
Risers
  1. 4,462Devante#5,382#920
  2. 1,656Unnamed#2,628#972
  3. 1,496Jaleel#2,373#877
  4. 811Gunnar#1,516#705
  5. 672Dijon#1,587#915
Fallers
  1. 1,000Arsenio#744#1,744
  2. 773Brittany#995#1,768
  3. 281Infant#389#670
  4. 281Jarret#881#1,162
  5. 273Elton#963#1,236

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1991