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Broc

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Broc has been given to 2,522 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 2004, with 105 recorded.

Babies named Broc, 2024

1 in 557,000

Broc over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Broc: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Broc means

Broc is a given name.

The naming story behind Broc

Wikidata records Broc as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q106765146, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,522 boys were recorded with the name Broc between 1947 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 105 in 2004; its best national rank was #1,049 in 1985.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Broc?

Broc had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Broc sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Broc. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brocs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Broc was born before 1997 — so the typical Broc is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,517
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (759).

Is Broc 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (105)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,049
1985

Spellings of Broc

Broc is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 34.1% against Broc's 0.10%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Broc is used

Across 1910–2025, Broc was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 156,076 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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. Broc has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Broc around the world

Where Broc ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • Canada
    2000–2009
    #2,118
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1994–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Broc

People whose public names include Broc, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Broc in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Broc. Linked forms have their own page here.

Brock

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Broc by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,049
1985
Peak year
2004
105 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,522
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Broc

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BronxBrookBrownBronBrodiBrodenBroganBrodeyBrolyBrodeeBrookeBrodieBrooklynBrodrickBrokBroncBrockBrooxBronsonRocBrodyBroncoBroadusBronze

Names with a curve like Broc

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Broc, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DontayRashardJovonRashaunJoshuahJeronJohnmichaelJerrickNikolausTavarisDajuanTerron

Sibling names for Broc

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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