Broc
Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
- Peak · boys
- 1985 · 77 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,522since 1947
Broc over time
Rank among boys' names. Broc has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #4,476 | 22 |
| 2017 | #5,297 | 17 |
| 2016 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #3,684 | 29 |
| 2014 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2013 | #3,405 | 31 |
| 2012 | #2,905 | 40 |
| 2011 | #2,626 | 46 |
| 2010 | #2,874 | 41 |
| 2009 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2008 | #2,104 | 65 |
| 2007 | #1,861 | 77 |
| 2006 | #1,669 | 85 |
| 2005 | #1,801 | 72 |
| 2004 | #1,374 | 105 |
| 2003 | #1,561 | 81 |
| 2002 | #1,529 | 81 |
| 2001 | #1,617 | 73 |
| 2000 | #1,564 | 76 |
| 1999 | #1,489 | 76 |
| 1998 | #1,811 | 55 |
| 1997 | #1,628 | 62 |
| 1996 | #1,908 | 47 |
| 1995 | #1,706 | 52 |
| 1994 | #1,516 | 62 |
| 1993 | #1,554 | 58 |
| 1992 | #1,490 | 61 |
| 1991 | #1,411 | 65 |
| 1990 | #1,058 | 100 |
| 1989 | #1,074 | 95 |
| 1988 | #1,204 | 71 |
| 1987 | #1,175 | 67 |
| 1986 | #1,067 | 76 |
| 1985 | #1,050 | 77 |
| 1984 | #1,110 | 66 |
| 1983 | #1,787 | 31 |
| 1982 | #1,815 | 31 |
| 1981 | #1,996 | 27 |
| 1980 | #1,726 | 33 |
| 1979 | #2,157 | 23 |
| 1978 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #1,904 | 26 |
| 1976 | #1,748 | 29 |
| 1975 | #1,787 | 27 |
| 1974 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #2,819 | 12 |
| 1971 | #2,558 | 14 |
| 1970 | #3,071 | 10 |
| 1969 | #3,595 | 7 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | #2,854 | 9 |
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| 1956 | #3,535 | 6 |
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| 1952 | #3,734 | 5 |
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| 1947 | #3,733 | 5 |
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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.
Where Broc is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Indiana#431 · 1 in 6,159
- Pennsylvania#576 · 1 in 11,031
- Ohio#619 · 1 in 12,582
- California#804 · 1 in 14,269
Best ever in a state: #282 in Utah, 1988.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | #431 | 6 | 1 in 6,159 |
| Pennsylvania | #576 | 7 | 1 in 11,031 |
| Ohio | #619 | 6 | 1 in 12,582 |
| California | #804 | 16 | 1 in 14,269 |
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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 Broc
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1985 at #1,050 (77 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 28 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 30.1% of all boys named Broc (759) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,733 (1947) | #3,733 |
| 1950s | 11 | #3,535 (1956) | #3,635 |
| 1960s | 28 | #2,854 (1964) | #3,415 |
| 1970s | 178 | #1,748 (1976) | #2,498 |
| 1980s | 574 | #1,050 (1985) | #1,400 |
| 1990s | 638 | #1,058 (1990) | #1,557 |
| 2000s | 759 | #1,374 (2004) | #1,783 |
| 2010s | 290 | #2,626 (2011) | #3,984 |
| 2020s | 39 | #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 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 24,230 of them was named Broc, which outranked 86.4% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,058Rodger77
- #1,058Torey77
- #1,058Woodrow77
- #1,067Broc76
- #1,067Jabari76
- #1,067Jamey76
- #1,067Jedediah76
- #1,075Anders75
- #1,075Brittany75
- #1,075Crystal75
Tied with 7 names at #1,067; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.