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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 73,834 of them was named Brogan, which outranked 71.2% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,284Zeva25
- #5,284Zlata25
- #5,284Zuleika25
- #5,445Brogan24
- #5,445Aamina24
- #5,445Acelyn24
- #5,445Adaiah24
- #5,622Aalyiah23
- #5,622Aamani23
- #5,622Aaron23
Tied with 176 names at #5,445; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 13,852 of them was named Brogan, which outranked 90.8% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,310Clifford138
- #1,310Kallen138
- #1,310Pharaoh138
- #1,313Brogan137
- #1,313Akeem137
- #1,313Bernardo137
- #1,313Corban137
- #1,320Gonzalo136
- #1,320Josias136
- #1,320Karsyn136
Tied with 6 names at #1,313; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.