Bradey
Bradey was last recorded in 2020, when 9 babies were given it; 723 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bradey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bradey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bradey is “a unisex given name.”
/ˈbreɪdi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bradey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,165, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
42 babies in 2007, the peak
Bradey peaked in 2007, when 42 babies were given it (33 boys, #3,314 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 9 | #8,165 | 5.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,961 | 3.3 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,320 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,027 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,191 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,503 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,630 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,535 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,296 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,746 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 33 | #3,314 | 15.9 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,607 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,173 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 37 | #2,787 | 18.6 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,674 | 18.7 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,506 | 20.1 |
| 2001 | 37 | #2,563 | 19.0 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,546 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,379 | 12.0 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,298 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,499 | 17.0 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,113 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,870 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,601 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,211 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,113 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,580 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,023 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,681 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,397 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,602 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,008 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,863 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,642 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,078 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,385 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,175 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,430 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,895 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,201 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #4,992 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,562 | 3.2 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,552 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bradey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 723 Americans recorded as Bradey, 1% are girls and 99% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bradey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bradey, and how old are they?
An estimated 703 Americans named Bradey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 822 people named Bradey (79 women and girls, 743 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 702 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 99,631 babies since 1880, Bradey is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,123 babies recorded by SSA was a Bradey (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 Bradey
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 Bradey and names like it
- Compare Bradey and BradyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBradey peaked in 2007.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bradey since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Bradey.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bradey alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.