Broghan
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Broghan has been given to 125 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2011, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% boys, 17% girls all-time.
Babies named Broghan, 2020
1 in 668,000
Broghan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Broghan over time
In 2020, Broghan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Broghan?
Broghan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Broghan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Broghan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Broghans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Broghan was born before 2011 — so the typical Broghan is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 48.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 104
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 48.1% of all recorded uses (50).
Is Broghan 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 2011 (16)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 47.9% average annual change
Spellings of Broghan
Broghan is not the most common spelling — Rohan is, with 47.1% against Broghan's 0.40%.
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.
Broghan around the world
Where Broghan 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 & Wales2005–2018#3,959in 2018
- South Australia2000–2000#556in 2000
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Broghan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Broghan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Broghan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.