Brogan
Brogan is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 34 boys were given it in 2025 (#15,340 among girls’ names and #3,387 among boys’, #6,643 among all names counting both); 5,031 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,960 Americans named Brogan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brogan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brogan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brogan is “a male given name.” Its etymology gives the senses “descendants of Brógán” (Brógáin) and “shoe” (bróg).
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Brógáin (“descendants of Brógán”), probably from a diminutive of bróg (“shoe”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brogan?
#3,387 among boys’ names, 2025
Brogan fell from #1,185 in 2015 to #3,387 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 81.4 to 19.9 per million.
313 babies in 2011, the peak
Brogan peaked in 2011, when 313 babies were given it (288 boys, #780 among boys’ names). The 39 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,340 | 34 | #3,387 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,301 | 30 | #3,704 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,573 | 57 | #2,392 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,701 | 49 | #2,676 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,078 | 63 | #2,229 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,490 | 56 | #2,369 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,016 | 83 | #1,824 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,641 | 101 | #1,617 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,920 | 118 | #1,449 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,484 | 137 | #1,315 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,340 | 156 | #1,185 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,761 | 201 | #1,014 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,676 | 188 | #1,030 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,709 | 218 | #933 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,395 | 288 | #780 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,962 | 250 | #846 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,961 | 226 | #912 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,124 | 259 | #841 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,258 | 193 | #1,003 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,910 | 183 | #1,003 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,873 | 163 | #1,031 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,595 | 156 | #1,043 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,847 | 129 | #1,160 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,103 | 100 | #1,324 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,034 | 78 | #1,541 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,000 | 77 | #1,549 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,591 | 87 | #1,363 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,844 | 50 | #1,930 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,526 | 58 | #1,691 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,730 | 63 | #1,572 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,152 | 55 | #1,645 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,987 | 33 | #2,350 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,677 | 41 | #1,965 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,777 | 37 | #2,088 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,657 | 29 | #2,407 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,571 | 34 | #2,125 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,684 | 24 | #2,620 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,874 | 28 | #2,197 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 11 | #3,993 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,113 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 10 | #4,079 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,571 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Brogan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,031 Americans recorded as Brogan, 17% are girls and 83% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brogan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brogan, and how old are they?
4,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,031 Americans ever recorded as Brogan. The median Brogan alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 4,474 people named Brogan (774 women and girls, 3,700 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,645 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 699 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,450 |
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 Brogan born?
The states with the most babies named Brogan are Ohio, California and Illinois, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 227 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 154 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 153 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 151 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Kansas | 141 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 136 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Oregon | 134 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 129 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 121 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 110 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Brogan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brogan is most over-represented in Kansas: since 1983 it was given 2.6 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 Brogan 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,332 babies since 1880, Brogan is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 39 babies (100%), 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 Brogan
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 Brogan and names like it
- Compare Brogan and BrogenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrogan peaked in 2011.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brogan since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Brogan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brogan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.