Meaning not yet researched.
Broderick: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 51 in 2025. Its best rank was #683 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #683 in 1956; #2,573 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Broderick in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,573 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #683.
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Broderick: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 51 boys in 2025. Peak: #683 in 1956 · most boys in one year: 253 (2009).
In 2025, 51 US boys were named Broderick, making it the 2,573rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 197 places from #2,376 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 59 boys named Broderick in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #683, reached in 1956. The most boys given the name in a single year was 253, in 2009. For comparison, it was #1,176 in 2015 and #1,317 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Broderick in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 30 babies. In all, 8,952 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,889 babies named Broderick.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 947 US boys were named Broderick; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 156. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,492 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Roderick (47,446 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Broderic, Broderik and Brodderick are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Brady, Brody, Rick, Ricky and Rod.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Broderic (188), Broderik (11), Brodderick (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 51 | #2,573 |
| 2024 | — | — | 59 | #2,376 |
| 2023 | — | — | 65 | #2,192 |
| 2022 | — | — | 69 | #2,138 |
| 2021 | — | — | 75 | #1,983 |
| 2020 | — | — | 100 | #1,609 |
| 2019 | — | — | 103 | #1,606 |
| 2018 | — | — | 122 | #1,434 |
| 2017 | — | — | 147 | #1,245 |
| 2016 | — | — | 156 | #1,209 |
| 2015 | — | — | 158 | #1,176 |
| 2014 | — | — | 215 | #973 |
| 2013 | — | — | 196 | #999 |
| 2012 | — | — | 230 | #903 |
| 2011 | — | — | 203 | #972 |
| 2010 | — | — | 205 | #966 |
| 2009 | — | — | 253 | #849 |
| 2008 | — | — | 231 | #901 |
| 2007 | — | — | 229 | #881 |
| 2006 | — | — | 223 | #885 |
| 2005 | — | — | 196 | #908 |
| 2004 | — | — | 169 | #985 |
| 2003 | — | — | 175 | #936 |
| 2002 | — | — | 145 | #1,053 |
| 2001 | — | — | 139 | #1,050 |
| 2000 | — | — | 129 | #1,088 |
| 1999 | — | — | 144 | #986 |
| 1998 | — | — | 142 | #971 |
| 1997 | — | — | 148 | #918 |
| 1996 | — | — | 175 | #822 |
| 1995 | — | — | 185 | #789 |
| 1994 | — | — | 142 | #918 |
| 1993 | — | — | 143 | #896 |
| 1992 | — | — | 136 | #906 |
| 1991 | — | — | 141 | #889 |
| 1990 | — | — | 134 | #891 |
| 1989 | — | — | 137 | #860 |
| 1988 | — | — | 136 | #814 |
| 1987 | — | — | 132 | #810 |
| 1986 | — | — | 122 | #821 |
| 1985 | — | — | 121 | #807 |
| 1984 | — | — | 129 | #764 |
| 1983 | — | — | 113 | #822 |
| 1982 | — | — | 100 | #895 |
| 1981 | — | — | 113 | #827 |
| 1980 | — | — | 123 | #789 |
| 1979 | — | — | 134 | #747 |
| 1978 | — | — | 112 | #803 |
| 1977 | — | — | 129 | #752 |
| 1976 | — | — | 93 | #868 |
| 1975 | — | — | 92 | #867 |
| 1974 | — | — | 88 | #853 |
| 1973 | — | — | 74 | #937 |
| 1972 | — | — | 98 | #811 |
| 1971 | — | — | 96 | #823 |
| 1970 | — | — | 83 | #887 |
| 1969 | — | — | 82 | #847 |
| 1968 | — | — | 50 | #1,048 |
| 1967 | — | — | 56 | #970 |
| 1966 | — | — | 48 | #1,061 |
| 1965 | — | — | 56 | #987 |
| 1964 | — | — | 54 | #1,025 |
| 1963 | — | — | 55 | #1,021 |
| 1962 | — | — | 61 | #973 |
| 1961 | — | — | 67 | #933 |
| 1960 | — | — | 71 | #899 |
| 1959 | — | — | 100 | #761 |
| 1958 | — | — | 106 | #722 |
| 1957 | — | — | 99 | #757 |
| 1956 | — | — | 121 | #683 |
| 1955 | — | — | 35 | #1,275 |
| 1954 | — | — | 24 | #1,561 |
| 1953 | — | — | 29 | #1,409 |
| 1952 | — | — | 25 | #1,521 |
| 1951 | — | — | 25 | #1,491 |
| 1950 | — | — | 30 | #1,317 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).