Broderick
Broderick was given to 51 boys in 2025, #2,573 among boys’ names; 8,952 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,380 Americans named Broderick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 16 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Broderick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Broderick mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Broderick is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Anglicized from Welsh ap + Rhydderch.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Broderick?
#2,573 among boys’ names, 2025
Broderick fell from #1,176 in 2015 to #2,573 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 82.4 to 29.9 per million.
253 babies in 2009, the peak
Broderick peaked in 2009, when 253 boys were given it, #849 among boys’ names. The 51 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #2,573 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,376 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,191 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,137 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 75 | #1,982 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 100 | #1,609 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 103 | #1,606 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 122 | #1,434 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 147 | #1,245 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 156 | #1,209 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 158 | #1,176 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 215 | #973 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 196 | #999 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 230 | #903 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 203 | #972 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 205 | #966 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 253 | #849 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 231 | #901 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 229 | #881 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 223 | #885 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 196 | #908 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 169 | #984 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 175 | #935 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 145 | #1,052 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 139 | #1,049 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 129 | #1,086 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 144 | #984 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 142 | #969 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 148 | #916 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 175 | #820 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 185 | #786 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 142 | #915 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 143 | #894 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 136 | #903 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 141 | #885 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 134 | #887 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 137 | #857 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 136 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 132 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 122 | #821 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 121 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 129 | #764 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 113 | #822 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 100 | #895 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 113 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 123 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 134 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 112 | #803 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 129 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 93 | #868 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 92 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 88 | #853 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 74 | #937 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 98 | #811 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 96 | #823 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 83 | #887 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 82 | #847 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,048 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 56 | #970 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 48 | #1,061 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 56 | #987 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 54 | #1,025 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 55 | #1,020 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 61 | #972 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 67 | #932 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 71 | #898 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 100 | #760 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 106 | #721 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 99 | #756 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 121 | #682 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,274 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 24 | #1,560 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,408 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 25 | #1,520 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,490 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,316 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Broderick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Broderick has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Broderick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Broderick, and how old are they?
8,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 8,952 Americans ever recorded as Broderick. The median Broderick alive today is 28 years old; half are between 16 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 6,679 people named Broderick (24 women and girls, 6,655 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,144 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 646 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,050 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,920 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,500 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Broderick born?
The states with the most babies named Broderick are Texas, California and Louisiana, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,058 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 554 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 406 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Georgia | 401 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Alabama | 359 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Florida | 338 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 291 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 259 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 209 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 171 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Broderick is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Broderick is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1950 it was given 2.5 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 boys’ 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 Broderick with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 11,035 babies since 1880, Broderick is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 66 babies (77%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Broderick
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 Broderick and names like it
- Compare Broderick and BrodrickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBroderick peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Broderick since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Broderick: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Broderick.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Broderick alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.