Meaning not yet researched.
Brogan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #780 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #780 in 2011; #3,388 in 2025. About 87% of babies named Brogan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,388 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #780.
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Brogan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 boys in 2025. Peak: #780 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 288 (2011).
In 2025, 34 US boys were named Brogan, making it the 3,388th most common boys’ name of the year, up 318 places from #3,706 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 30 boys named Brogan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #780, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 288. For comparison, it was #1,185 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Brogan, making it the 15,344th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,038 places from #11,306 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 8 girls named Brogan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,576, reached in 1990. That year also had the most girls given the name: 46. For comparison, it was #7,343 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brogan in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 6 babies. In all, 5,031 US babies have been given the name, 17% of them girls and 83% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,923 babies named Brogan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 728 US boys were named Brogan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 137. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Brogen and Brogyn are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brogen (176), Brogyn (5).
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.
No nicknames listed for Brogan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,344 | 34 | #3,388 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,306 | 30 | #3,706 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,578 | 57 | #2,393 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,706 | 49 | #2,678 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,083 | 63 | #2,230 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,495 | 56 | #2,370 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,020 | 83 | #1,824 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,645 | 101 | #1,617 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,924 | 118 | #1,449 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,486 | 137 | #1,315 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,343 | 156 | #1,185 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,763 | 201 | #1,014 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,681 | 188 | #1,030 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,713 | 218 | #933 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,397 | 288 | #780 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,965 | 250 | #846 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,962 | 226 | #912 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,128 | 259 | #841 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,261 | 193 | #1,003 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,912 | 183 | #1,003 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,878 | 163 | #1,032 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,599 | 156 | #1,044 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,852 | 129 | #1,161 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,109 | 100 | #1,327 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,039 | 78 | #1,545 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,005 | 77 | #1,553 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,596 | 87 | #1,366 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,849 | 50 | #1,933 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,529 | 58 | #1,694 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,735 | 63 | #1,575 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,157 | 55 | #1,650 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,992 | 33 | #2,355 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,682 | 41 | #1,970 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,782 | 37 | #2,093 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,663 | 29 | #2,413 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,576 | 34 | #2,130 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,690 | 24 | #2,626 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,879 | 28 | #2,202 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #3,999 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,118 | — | — |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,084 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,575 |
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).