Bradlee
Bradlee is given to both girls and boys: 9 girls and 24 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,233 among girls’ names and #4,267 among boys’, #7,441 among all names counting both); 3,870 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,720 Americans named Bradlee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 14 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bradlee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bradlee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bradlee is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Bradley.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bradlee?
#4,267 among boys’ names, 2025
Bradlee fell from #1,959 in 2015 to #4,267 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 38.6 to 14.1 per million.
116 babies in 2012, the peak
Bradlee peaked in 2012, when 116 babies were given it (107 boys, #1,500 among boys’ names). The 33 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 28% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,233 | 24 | #4,267 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,291 | 26 | #4,089 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,459 | 25 | #4,236 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,498 | 19 | #5,040 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,733 | 36 | #3,250 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,347 | 50 | #2,553 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,929 | 41 | #2,944 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,030 | 54 | #2,419 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,390 | 54 | #2,390 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,647 | 56 | #2,338 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,663 | 74 | #1,959 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,341 | 83 | #1,796 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,508 | 78 | #1,829 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,417 | 107 | #1,500 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,134 | 83 | #1,755 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 95 | #1,641 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,928 | 79 | #1,851 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 93 | #1,657 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,062 | 93 | #1,652 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,552 | 83 | #1,700 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,892 | 90 | #1,553 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,773 | 69 | #1,803 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 80 | #1,575 | |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,288 | 84 | #1,496 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,754 | 81 | #1,498 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 68 | #1,679 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,904 | 82 | #1,418 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 86 | #1,356 | |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,924 | 82 | #1,347 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,650 | 100 | #1,166 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,107 | 83 | #1,282 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,896 | 51 | #1,730 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,803 | 73 | #1,330 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 66 | #1,395 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 66 | #1,391 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 79 | #1,234 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 74 | #1,253 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 73 | #1,175 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 62 | #1,233 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 63 | #1,200 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 55 | #1,290 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 51 | #1,295 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 40 | #1,515 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 45 | #1,417 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 41 | #1,499 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 33 | #1,733 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 37 | #1,573 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 34 | #1,620 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 40 | #1,453 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 25 | #1,937 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 27 | #1,792 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 15 | #2,557 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 17 | #2,319 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 18 | #2,163 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 9 | #3,395 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 19 | #2,063 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 12 | #2,563 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 15 | #2,115 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 16 | #1,981 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 5 | #4,004 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 12 | #2,380 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 14 | #2,216 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 8 | #3,073 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 10 | #2,686 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 11 | #2,565 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 11 | #2,549 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 13 | #2,309 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 11 | #2,524 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 10 | #2,658 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,574 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,543 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 9 | #2,763 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 11 | #2,404 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 5 | #3,799 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 8 | #2,802 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 6 | #3,408 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Bradlee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,870 Americans recorded as Bradlee, 10% are girls and 90% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bradlee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bradlee, and how old are they?
3,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,870 Americans ever recorded as Bradlee. The median Bradlee alive today is 24 years old; half are between 14 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 2,977 people named Bradlee (337 women and girls, 2,640 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,504 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 98 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 299 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,010 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 899 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Bradlee born?
The states with the most babies named Bradlee are Texas, California and Ohio, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 216 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 176 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 105 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 93 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 88 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 36 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 31 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kentucky | 28 | not ranked | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bradlee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 328,181 babies since 1880, Bradlee is the third most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 873 babies (3.8%), the second most given that year.
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 Bradlee
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 Bradlee and names like it
- Compare Bradlee and BradleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBradlee peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bradlee since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Bradlee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Bradlee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bradlee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.