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Broderick

#2,573 in 2025Boys' name

Son, through ap

Broderick has been given to 8,952 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #2,573 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 253 recorded.

Babies named Broderick, 2025

1 in 65,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Broderick: meaning, origin, and history

Son, through ap

surname transfer

What Broderick means

Broderick belongs to the name family reached through Broderick → ap. Its meaning is “son”.

Origin, language, and formation

Broderick is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Broderick comes through Welsh ap.

Broderick is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include ap.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,952 boys were recorded with the name Broderick between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 253 in 2009; its best national rank was #682 in 1956.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,609 in 2020 to #2,573 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,176 in 2015 to #2,573 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Broderick?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 65,000
51 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,573
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,058 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Broderick 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 2025 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 45,058 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Broderick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brodericks were born

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

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
21.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,952
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 21.1% of all recorded uses (1,889).

Is Broderick 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
−197
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−964
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,397
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.2%
Peak was 2009 (253)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#682
1956

Spellings of Broderick

Broderick is not the most common spelling — Frederick is, with 79.2% against Broderick's 2.7%.

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 Broderick is used

Across 2016–2025, Broderick was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 29,078 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 11,111
  2. 2Indiana1 in 16,667
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 16,667
  4. 4Ohio1 in 16,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 20,000
  6. 6California1 in 25,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in 25,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 25,000

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.

Broderick around the world

Where Broderick 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
    2015–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2020
    #2,570
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1956–2006
    #657
    in 2006

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 Broderick

People whose public names include Broderick, 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.

Broderick in other languages

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

BrodrickRoderick

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

Broderick by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,573
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 964
Best rank ever
#682
1956
Peak year
2009
253 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,952
Count in 2025
51

Names similar to Broderick

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

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Names with a curve like Broderick

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

BrandtAntonyEfrenBrittonJosefTyeCristobalFrancescoAndreasOctavioMarkusKalvin

Sibling names for Broderick

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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