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Bronagh

Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
UK rank, 2025
#5,990 for girls

Bronagh is a girls' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).

What does Bronagh mean?

Irish

A female given name from Irish.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Bronagh a girl's or a boy's name?

Bronagh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Bronagh in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#5,990among girls
Babies in 2025
3about 1 in 93,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 58% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Bronagh, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,766th. Its busiest year was 1997, with 62 girls.

Half of all the girls named Bronagh in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2009. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 62 in 19972025
Bronagh in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20253#5,990
20247#3,381
20231#7,582
20224#4,870
20210–
20209#2,766
20199#2,792
20188#3,068
201716#1,913
20166#3,788
20159#2,855
201414#2,076
201317#1,798
201214#2,103
201115#1,917
201011#2,379
200914#1,957
200810#2,454
200732#1,012
200622#1,272
200524#1,128
200438#794
200326#997
200230#867
200137#737
200040#682
199938#693
199849#598
199762#511
199616#1,244

Names like Bronagh

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

More Irish names

Every Irish name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Bronagh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bronagh, updated 20 October 2026.