Brogan

#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #3,379 for boys in 2025, 34 births
Given to boys 82.7% of the time

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Peak · boys
2011 · 288 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,159
since 1983

Brogan over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202001peak #2,571, 1990peak #780, 2011girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#14,9425#3,37934
2024#11,1228#3,69330
2023#8,48612#2,38757
2022#7,63114#2,67549
2021#8,97811#2,22563
2020#8,40612#2,36656
2019#5,98620#1,82383
2018#5,61922#1,617101
2017#7,84014#1,449118
2016#5,44524#1,313137
2015#7,26616#1,185156
2014#6,71318#1,014201
2013#8,58013#1,030188
2012#8,63213#933218
2011#5,35825#780288
2010#6,90418#845250
2009#4,93129#912226
2008#7,07318#840259
2007#5,23027#1,002193
2006#6,84018#1,003183
2005#6,82017#1,032163
2004#5,55522#1,043156
2003#5,79520#1,159129
2002#7,04515#1,326100
2001#5,00923#1,54378
2000#4,98123#1,55277
1999#4,57624#1,36687
1998#5,79917#1,93150
1997#4,50823#1,69358
1996#3,72329#1,57463
1995#3,15236#1,64855
1994#2,98839#2,34733
1993#2,67645#1,96941
1992#2,77743#2,08537
1991#2,66045#2,40629
1990#2,57146#2,12834
1989#3,67327#2,61524
1988#2,86736#2,19728
1987#3,95911
1986#10,9125
1985#4,05210
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First appearance
1983

The first year at least five boys were named Brogan! It came in at #5,484, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1984, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Brogan
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 314 spots since 2024 (#3,693#3,379)
  • 1,013 spots since 2020 (#2,366#3,379)
  • 2,194 spots since 2015 (#1,185#3,379)
  • Biggest jump: 162 spots in 2008 (#1,002#840)
  • Biggest drop: 153 spots in 2012 (#780#933)
Rise & fade · boys
28 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1983
  • Peaked 2011 at #780 (288 births)
  • Births halved by 2016, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2008–2012
Share of babies · boys
1 in 6,595
  • Highest: 1 in 6,595 boys born in 2011 were named Brogan (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 50,238 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 41.8% of all boys named Brogan (1,740) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1995
  • Mostly girls until 1994, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s79#2,197 (1988)#3,661
1990s487#1,366 (1999)#1,915
2000s1,564#840 (2008)#1,141
2010s1,740#780 (2011)#1,199
2020s289#2,225 (2021)#2,788

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.

Brogan in 2001

girls
#5,009
23 births · 1 in 78,288 girls
boys
#1,543
78 births · 1 in 24,909 boys

Top girls' names in 2001

  1. #1Emily25,059
  2. #2Madison22,166
  3. #3Hannah20,723
  4. #4Ashley16,531
  5. #5Alexis16,404
  6. #6Sarah15,929
  7. #7Samantha15,867
  8. #8Abigail14,807
  9. #9Elizabeth14,792
  10. #10Olivia13,977
  11. #5,009Brogan23

Top boys' names in 2001

  1. #1Jacob32,573
  2. #2Michael29,689
  3. #3Matthew26,812
  4. #4Joshua26,024
  5. #5Christopher23,132
  6. #6Nicholas22,849
  7. #7Andrew22,422
  8. #8Joseph22,030
  9. #9Daniel21,013
  10. #10William20,110
  11. #1,543Brogan78
More about 2001

girls

1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 78,288 of them was named Brogan, which outranked 72.1% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Brogan
  1. #4,834Zabrina24
  2. #4,834Zahara24
  3. #4,834Zayla24
  4. #5,009Brogan23
  5. #5,009Aaryn23
  6. #5,009Aashna23
  7. #5,009Adama23
  8. #5,174Aalayah22
  9. #5,174Abaigeal22
  10. #5,174Abigayl22

Tied with 164 names at #5,009; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2000
Risers
  1. 1,602Dafne#2,569#967
  2. 1,493Nevaeh#1,759#266
  3. 1,339Jimena#2,213#874
  4. 1,263Taina#2,174#911
  5. 1,069Yuliana#1,759#690
Fallers
  1. 913Dariana#837#1,750
  2. 368Cortney#825#1,193
  3. 362Maiya#994#1,356
  4. 313Rosalinda#701#1,014
  5. 307Ivana#863#1,170

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

boys

1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 24,909 of them was named Brogan, which outranked 87.5% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Brogan
  1. #1,527Tarik79
  2. #1,527Tayler79
  3. #1,527Willem79
  4. #1,543Brogan78
  5. #1,543Aleksander78
  6. #1,543Bradon78
  7. #1,543Damarcus78
  8. #1,564Abelardo77
  9. #1,564Brayton77
  10. #1,564Dhruv77

Tied with 20 names at #1,543; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2000
Risers
  1. 5,879Jaheim#6,316#437
  2. 1,128Imanol#2,049#921
  3. 730Jagger#1,391#661
  4. 539Maximus#850#311
  5. 461Daunte#1,429#968
Fallers
  1. 476Tyreek#914#1,390
  2. 466Tyrique#949#1,415
  3. 456Infant#765#1,221
  4. 423Deion#893#1,316
  5. 291Nicklaus#986#1,277

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

See the top 100 for 2001