Brogan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Irish Gaelic O Brogain, 'descendant of Brogan', a personal name perhaps meaning 'little shoe'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɹoʊɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brogan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 20K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 26K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
7,754 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Irish Gaelic O Brogain, 'descendant of Brogan', a personal name perhaps meaning 'little shoe'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Brogan, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brogan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 7,754 | 1 in 43K | 7.8K | Brogan | 379 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 7 | Brogan | 172 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 1 | Brogan | 122 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Brogan | 15 |
| IE Ireland | #559 | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Brogan | 73 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 19 | Brogan | 43 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 2 | — | — |
7,754 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Brogan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A heavy working shoe; a brogue.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, inflection of brōga:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, tronquer ; titiller
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Denis William Broganb. 1900GBBritish historian (1900–1974)
- Mervyn Broganb. 1915AUAustralian general (1915-1994)
- Frank Broganb. 1942GBScottish footballer (born 1942)
- Jim Broganb. 1944GBScottish footballer (1944-2018)
- Jimmy Broganb. 1948USAmerican actor, comedian and writer
- Frank Broganb. 1953USAmerican academic
- Jim Broganb. 1958USAmerican basketball player
- Michelle Broganb. 1973AUAustralian basketball player (born 1973)
- Stephen Broganb. 1988GBBritish footballer (born 1988)
- Danielle Broganb. 1988AUAustralian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.8K | #4,577 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.4K | #4,644 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.4K | #4,445 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brogan mean, and where does it come from?
- from Irish Gaelic O Brogain, 'descendant of Brogan', a personal name perhaps meaning 'little shoe'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Brogan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.8 thousand people named Brogan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brogan.
- How common is the name Brogan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,754 people named Brogan in 2010, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Brogan compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Brogan is the 559th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Brogan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹoʊɡən/ (IPA) for English.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/broganThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brogan” — the 559th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.