Bradleigh
Bradleigh was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,106 among girls’ names; 490 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bradleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bradleigh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bradleigh is “a male given name, variant of Bradley.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bradleigh?
#11,106 among girls’ names, 2025
Bradleigh fell from #4,505 in 2015 to #11,106 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 5.0 per million.
41 babies in 2014, the peak
Bradleigh peaked in 2014, when 41 girls were given it, #3,728 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,106 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,536 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,570 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,385 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,447 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,032 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,640 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,479 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,407 | 18.5 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,006 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,505 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,728 | 23.0 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,203 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,199 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,522 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,884 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,744 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,765 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,799 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,715 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,004 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,774 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,262 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,010 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,479 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,665 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,899 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,562 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,108 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,743 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,739 | 3.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,322 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,516 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,970 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bradleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 490 Americans recorded as Bradleigh, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bradleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bradleigh, and how old are they?
An estimated 485 Americans named Bradleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 455 people named Bradleigh (385 women and girls, 70 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 410 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Bradleigh
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.
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