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
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 288 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,159since 1983
Brogan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #3,379 | 34 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #3,693 | 30 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #2,387 | 57 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #2,675 | 49 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #2,225 | 63 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #2,366 | 56 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2018 | #5,619 | 22 | #1,617 | 101 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #1,449 | 118 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 | #1,313 | 137 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | #1,185 | 156 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #1,014 | 201 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 | #1,030 | 188 |
| 2012 | #8,632 | 13 | #933 | 218 |
| 2011 | #5,358 | 25 | #780 | 288 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 | #845 | 250 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 | #912 | 226 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | #840 | 259 |
| 2007 | #5,230 | 27 | #1,002 | 193 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | #1,003 | 183 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | #1,032 | 163 |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 | #1,043 | 156 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | #1,159 | 129 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #1,326 | 100 |
| 2001 | #5,009 | 23 | #1,543 | 78 |
| 2000 | #4,981 | 23 | #1,552 | 77 |
| 1999 | #4,576 | 24 | #1,366 | 87 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | #1,931 | 50 |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 | #1,693 | 58 |
| 1996 | #3,723 | 29 | #1,574 | 63 |
| 1995 | #3,152 | 36 | #1,648 | 55 |
| 1994 | #2,988 | 39 | #2,347 | 33 |
| 1993 | #2,676 | 45 | #1,969 | 41 |
| 1992 | #2,777 | 43 | #2,085 | 37 |
| 1991 | #2,660 | 45 | #2,406 | 29 |
| 1990 | #2,571 | 46 | #2,128 | 34 |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | #2,615 | 24 |
| 1988 | #2,867 | 36 | #2,197 | 28 |
| 1987 | — | #3,959 | 11 | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
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| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
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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.
Where Brogan is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#348 · 1 in 1,720
- Nebraska#364 · 1 in 2,062
- Wisconsin#396 · 1 in 2,665
- Utah#536 · 1 in 3,731
- Ohio#568 · 1 in 5,040
Best ever in a state: #168 in New Hampshire, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #348 | 5 | 1 in 1,720 |
| Nebraska | #364 | 5 | 1 in 2,062 |
| Wisconsin | #396 | 11 | 1 in 2,665 |
| Utah | #536 | 6 | 1 in 3,731 |
| Ohio | #568 | 13 | 1 in 5,040 |
| Oklahoma | #585 | 5 | 1 in 4,123 |
| Indiana | #607 | 8 | 1 in 4,782 |
| Michigan | #649 | 10 | 1 in 5,473 |
| Colorado | #701 | 5 | 1 in 5,996 |
| Virginia | #792 | 6 | 1 in 7,178 |
| Illinois | #813 | 10 | 1 in 7,715 |
| Florida | #1,234 | 7 | 1 in 14,143 |
| California | #1,632 | 9 | 1 in 28,241 |
| Texas | #2,065 | 5 | 1 in 36,223 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Brogan
- 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)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2011 at #780 (288 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2008–2012
- 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%)
- 41.8% of all boys named Brogan (1,740) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1994, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 79 | #2,197 (1988) | #3,661 |
| 1990s | 487 | #1,366 (1999) | #1,915 |
| 2000s | 1,564 | #840 (2008) | #1,141 |
| 2010s | 1,740 | #780 (2011) | #1,199 |
| 2020s | 289 | #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 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 108,697 of them was named Brogan, which outranked 64.5% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,528Zuleika18
- #6,528Zulma18
- #6,528Zyan18
- #6,820Brogan17
- #6,820Abygayle17
- #6,820Aesha17
- #6,820Afnan17
- #7,138Aashi16
- #7,138Abeni16
- #7,138Abi16
Tied with 317 names at #6,820; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 12,253 of them was named Brogan, which outranked 92.3% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).