Broadus
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Broadus has been given to 905 babies in the U.S. since 1900. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1924, with 32 recorded.
Babies named Broadus, 2013
1 in 729,000
Broadus over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Broadus?
Broadus had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2013
- 1 in 729,000
- 5 of 3,645,938 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 378,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2013
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 505,435 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Broadus sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Broadus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Broaduss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Broadus was born before 1932 — so the typical Broadus is around 93 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 25.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 0.55%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 214
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (227).
Is Broadus rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1924 (32)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.7% average annual change
Where Broadus is used
Across 1910–2025, Broadus was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 28,900 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 7,692
- 2North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 3Georgia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Broadus has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Broadus by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Broadus
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Broadus
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.