girls:
21 births since 1990
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
104 births since 2000
#4482 (2nd percentile)
overall:
125 births since 1990
#7614 (2nd percentile)
The name Broghan is the #7,614 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 125 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,482 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 104 births since 2000. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1990.
Broghan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (1990 for girls and 2000 for boys). Birth data for Broghan is available in 16 out of the 31 years between 1990 and 2020 (13 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Broghan has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2020, 100.0% of babies named Broghan were boys. Interestingly, until around 2000, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1990 to 1999), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (92.0% boys from 2000 to 2020).
For boys, Broghan reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #870) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Broghan reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #933) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Broghan".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Broghan is pronounced as BROH-guhn, which has 2 syllables.
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