Given name & surname
Brogan
“one who is sturdy; reliable”
Brogan is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “one who is sturdy; reliable.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “one who is sturdy; reliable.”
How it developed
Probably from Irish Ó Brógáin (“descendants of Brógán”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1983. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Brogan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,031
- 4,159 boys · 872 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 313 babies
- 2025
- 39
- #3,388 for boys · #15,344 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −52%
- Cooling
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 84% boys.
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 34 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 3,388 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 52.9% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 288 in 2011. It also appeared in 5 birth records for girls in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,474 as a first name in 2020; 7,400 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Brogan’s family of names
Brogan has a related form in Brogen. Brogan has a related form in Broggan. Brogan has a related form in Broggen.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Brogynvariant
- Brogenvariant
- Brogannlikely variant
- Broggynvariant
- Brogginvariant
- Broginvariant
- Broggunvariant
- Brogunvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Brogan
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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