Bradd
Bradd was last recorded in 2009, when 6 babies were given it; 653 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bradd by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bradd?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,170, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1976, the peak
Bradd peaked in 1976, when 27 boys were given it, #1,832 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #11,170 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,567 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,569 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,904 | 3.2 |
| 1991 | 8 | #5,998 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,242 | 2.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,815 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,520 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,894 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,086 | 8.1 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 9 | #4,245 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,905 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,472 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,568 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,111 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,242 | 12.8 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,290 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,219 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 27 | #1,832 | 17.2 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,891 | 16.0 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,472 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,616 | 9.0 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,873 | 14.2 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,061 | 11.3 |
| 1970 | 20 | #1,994 | 10.8 |
| 1969 | 22 | #1,770 | 12.3 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,456 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 20 | #1,765 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 24 | #1,584 | 13.5 |
| 1965 | 25 | #1,562 | 13.4 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,852 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 17 | #1,967 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,387 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,158 | 7.1 |
| 1960 | 22 | #1,731 | 10.3 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,123 | 7.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,299 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,027 | 7.4 |
| 1956 | 18 | #1,891 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #2,985 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,606 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,906 | 8.6 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,691 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,863 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,450 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,053 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 15 | #1,949 | 8.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,776 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bradd a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bradd has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bradd: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bradd, and how old are they?
An estimated 539 Americans named Bradd and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 47 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 588 people named Bradd (1 woman or girl, 587 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 570 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Bradd?
Bradd is a less common spelling of Brad: SSA has recorded 653 Bradd and 83,293 Brad since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 84,164 babies since 1880, Bradd is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 24 babies recorded by SSA was a Bradd (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bradd
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bradd and names like it
- Compare Bradd and BradBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBradd peaked in 1976.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bradd since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Bradd.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Bradd alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.