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.
Where Brogan is popular in 1983
No state had 5 or more boys named Brogan in 1983, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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 1983
Top boys' names in 1983
More about 1983
boys
1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 298,761 of them was named Brogan, which outranked 25.3% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,907Zahir7
- #4,907Zenon7
- #4,907Zephaniah7
- #5,484Brogan6
- #5,484Aakash6
- #5,484Aarik6
- #5,484Aarin6
- #6,238Abby5
- #6,238Abdallah5
- #6,238Abhay5
Tied with 753 names at #5,484; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.