first name
BROGAN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,474 people named Brogan, 90.5% reported their origin as White, 4.4% as two or more races and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino. 82.7% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Brogan peaked in 2011, when 313 babies got the name.
At least 5,031 babies have been given the name since 1983. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Brogan by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #2,223. The largest share of babies named Brogan, 56.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Brogan is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Brogan has been most common in Oregon (6.1×), Kansas (5.5×), and Nebraska (3.9×), and least common in New York (0.26×).
2,404 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Exactly as common as Brogan
2 other first names also have 4,474 people.
Either side of Brogan
Spelled almost the same
2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Brogan, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Brogan ranks #4,644 of 156,621, with 7,400 people. See Brogan as a last name
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