Broghan
Broghan was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 125 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Broghan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Broghan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,311, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2011, the peak
Broghan peaked in 2011, when 16 boys were given it, #5,459 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #12,311 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 9 | #8,242 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 7 | #9,782 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 6 | #10,935 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 11 | #7,131 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 16 | #5,459 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,094 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 11 | #7,263 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #12,619 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 9 | #8,082 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #10,288 | |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,835 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 5 | #10,884 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 6 | #9,228 | |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,986 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,598 | under 5 |
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 Broghan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 125 Americans recorded as Broghan, 17% are girls and 83% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Broghan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Broghan, and how old are they?
An estimated 123 Americans named Broghan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 196 people named Broghan (72 women and girls, 124 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 120 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Broghan?
Broghan is a less common spelling of Brogan: SSA has recorded 125 Broghan and 5,031 Brogan since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,332 babies since 1880, Broghan is the third most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 39 babies recorded by SSA was a Broghan (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Broghan and names like it
- Compare Broghan and BroganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBroghan peaked in 2011.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Broghan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Broghan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.