Brocha
Brocha was given to 11 girls in 2025, #8,964 among girls’ names; 848 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brocha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brocha?
#8,964 among girls’ names, 2025
Brocha fell from #6,506 in 2015 to #8,964 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 6.8 per million.
33 babies in 2001, the peak
Brocha peaked in 2001, when 33 girls were given it, #3,869 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,964 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,674 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,461 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,335 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,594 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,680 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,765 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,271 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,859 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,222 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,506 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,048 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,821 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,647 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,904 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,265 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,827 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,472 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,358 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,549 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,576 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,459 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,121 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,395 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,869 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,976 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,690 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,161 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,016 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,894 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,865 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,040 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,019 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,508 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,693 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,859 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,323 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,704 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,682 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,797 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,396 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,762 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,862 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,574 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,291 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,130 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,716 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,806 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,277 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,248 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,149 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brocha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brocha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brocha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brocha, and how old are they?
An estimated 834 Americans named Brocha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 14 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 669 people named Brocha (669 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 749 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Brocha born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 394 | not ranked | 7.1× |
| New Jersey | 269 | not ranked | 10.9× |
Where Brocha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brocha is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1970 it was given 10.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Brocha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brocha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Brocha and names like it
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brocha since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Brocha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brocha alive today were born 1997-2012.
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