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Broderick

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Broderick is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 58 births. Its best rank was 683rd, in 1956.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
580.00% of boys
Peak year
2009253 births
Best rank
#683in 1956
Since 1950
8,900people given the name
Babies named Broderick, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

8,900 boys have been named Broderick in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 253 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 2000s alone account for 21%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Broderick
1950s594
1960s600
1970s999
1980s1,226
1990s1,490
2000s1,889
2010s1,735
2020s367

In 2009, its biggest year

Broderick was the 849th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2009 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Alexander and William. See all of 2009.

Names that rose and fell with Broderick

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.