Broderick
#2,572 for boys in 2025, 51 births
- Peak · boys
- 1956 · 121 births
- Debut · boys
- 30 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,952since 1950
Broderick over time
Rank among boys' names. Broderick has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,572 | 51 |
| 2024 | #2,370 | 59 |
| 2023 | #2,188 | 65 |
| 2022 | #2,136 | 69 |
| 2021 | #1,982 | 75 |
| 2020 | #1,609 | 100 |
| 2019 | #1,606 | 103 |
| 2018 | #1,431 | 122 |
| 2017 | #1,245 | 147 |
| 2016 | #1,208 | 156 |
| 2015 | #1,174 | 158 |
| 2014 | #973 | 215 |
| 2013 | #999 | 196 |
| 2012 | #902 | 230 |
| 2011 | #972 | 203 |
| 2010 | #966 | 205 |
| 2009 | #849 | 253 |
| 2008 | #899 | 231 |
| 2007 | #881 | 229 |
| 2006 | #885 | 223 |
| 2005 | #908 | 196 |
| 2004 | #985 | 169 |
| 2003 | #936 | 175 |
| 2002 | #1,052 | 145 |
| 2001 | #1,049 | 139 |
| 2000 | #1,087 | 129 |
| 1999 | #985 | 144 |
| 1998 | #970 | 142 |
| 1997 | #918 | 148 |
| 1996 | #821 | 175 |
| 1995 | #789 | 185 |
| 1994 | #917 | 142 |
| 1993 | #893 | 143 |
| 1992 | #906 | 136 |
| 1991 | #889 | 141 |
| 1990 | #890 | 134 |
| 1989 | #860 | 137 |
| 1988 | #813 | 136 |
| 1987 | #810 | 132 |
| 1986 | #821 | 122 |
| 1985 | #805 | 121 |
| 1984 | #763 | 129 |
| 1983 | #821 | 113 |
| 1982 | #894 | 100 |
| 1981 | #826 | 113 |
| 1980 | #789 | 123 |
| 1979 | #747 | 134 |
| 1978 | #803 | 112 |
| 1977 | #751 | 129 |
| 1976 | #866 | 93 |
| 1975 | #867 | 92 |
| 1974 | #852 | 88 |
| 1973 | #936 | 74 |
| 1972 | #808 | 98 |
| 1971 | #822 | 96 |
| 1970 | #884 | 83 |
| 1969 | #846 | 82 |
| 1968 | #1,047 | 50 |
| 1967 | #968 | 56 |
| 1966 | #1,059 | 48 |
| 1965 | #986 | 56 |
| 1964 | #1,025 | 54 |
| 1963 | #1,020 | 55 |
| 1962 | #973 | 61 |
| 1961 | #933 | 67 |
| 1960 | #897 | 71 |
| 1959 | #761 | 100 |
| 1958 | #721 | 106 |
| 1957 | #757 | 99 |
| 1956 | #683 | 121 |
| 1955 | #1,273 | 35 |
| 1954 | #1,559 | 24 |
| 1953 | #1,408 | 29 |
| 1952 | #1,517 | 25 |
| 1951 | #1,489 | 25 |
| 1950 | #1,313 | 30 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Broderick! It came in at #1,313, and was given to 30 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1955, when fewer than 36 boys a year got the name.
See more about Broderick
- 202 spots since 2024 (#2,370 → #2,572)
- 963 spots since 2020 (#1,609 → #2,572)
- 1,398 spots since 2015 (#1,174 → #2,572)
- Biggest jump: 590 spots in 1956 (#1,273 → #683)
- Biggest drop: 201 spots in 2015 (#973 → #1,174)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1956 at #683 (121 births)
- Births halved by 1963, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 52 yrs · run 1969–1999
- Highest: 1 in 7,840 boys born in 2009 were named Broderick (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 33,492 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #683 in 1956, was only 1 in 17,482 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 21.1% of all boys named Broderick (1,889) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 594 | #683 (1956) | #1,148 |
| 1960s | 600 | #846 (1969) | #975 |
| 1970s | 999 | #747 (1979) | #834 |
| 1980s | 1,226 | #763 (1984) | #820 |
| 1990s | 1,490 | #789 (1995) | #898 |
| 2000s | 1,889 | #849 (2009) | #953 |
| 2010s | 1,735 | #902 (2012) | #1,148 |
| 2020s | 419 | #1,609 (2020) | #2,143 |
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.
Broderick in 1955
Top boys' names in 1955
More about 1955
boys
2,059,889 boys got a published name in 1955; 1 in 58,854 of them was named Broderick, which outranked 71.1% of the 4,400 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,255Renaldo36
- #1,255Rockey36
- #1,255Valentino36
- #1,273Broderick35
- #1,273Abram35
- #1,273Ardell35
- #1,273Danniel35
- #1,294Christy34
- #1,294Cornelious34
- #1,294Darren34
Tied with 20 names at #1,273; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.