Bradly
Bradly was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,747 among boys’ names; 9,354 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,540 Americans named Bradly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 28 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bradly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bradly mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bradly is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Spelling variant of Bradley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bradly?
#7,747 among boys’ names, 2025
Bradly fell from #3,237 in 2015 to #7,747 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.3 to 5.9 per million.
260 babies in 1990, the peak
Bradly peaked in 1990, when 260 babies were given it (254 boys, #633 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,747 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,941 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,948 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,724 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 19 | #4,949 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,737 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,846 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 35 | #3,249 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,252 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,891 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #3,237 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,120 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,140 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,048 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 74 | #1,888 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 94 | #1,655 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 87 | #1,756 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,447 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,478 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 129 | #1,289 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 125 | #1,256 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 113 | #1,308 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 124 | #1,189 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,098 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 139 | #1,048 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 163 | #930 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 160 | #920 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 201 | #776 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 203 | #739 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 168 | #839 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 189 | #779 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 190 | #762 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 197 | #741 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 212 | #703 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 206 | #701 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 254 | #633 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 236 | #649 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 208 | #656 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 220 | #610 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 219 | #602 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 213 | #600 | 0.12 |
| 1984 | 184 | #631 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 194 | #614 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 219 | #583 | 0.12 |
| 1981 | 204 | #600 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 214 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 202 | #604 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 159 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 176 | #640 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 164 | #643 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 162 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 146 | #674 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 134 | #689 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 141 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 158 | #652 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 187 | #593 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 174 | #590 | 0.10 |
| 1968 | 120 | #689 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 121 | #677 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 89 | #773 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 118 | #685 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 124 | #692 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 96 | #780 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 93 | #790 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 117 | #708 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 111 | #729 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 92 | #797 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 73 | #882 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 71 | #899 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 61 | #954 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 66 | #915 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 56 | #995 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 54 | #977 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 45 | #1,080 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,378 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 20 | #1,660 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 23 | #1,546 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,124 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,924 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,578 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bradly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bradly has been given almost only to boys: 11 girls in 80 years of records.
Girls and boys named Bradly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bradly, and how old are they?
8,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 9,354 Americans ever recorded as Bradly. The median Bradly alive today is 39 years old; half are between 28 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 7,148 people named Bradly (45 women and girls, 7,103 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,675 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 834 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,190 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 363 |
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 Bradly born?
The states with the most babies named Bradly are California, Texas and Ohio, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 814 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 595 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 527 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 454 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 330 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 291 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 245 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 245 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Iowa | 239 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 236 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Bradly is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bradly is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1946 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Bradly 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 328,236 babies since 1880, Bradly is the second most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 873 babies (1.1%), the third 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 Bradly
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 Bradly and names like it
- Compare Bradly and BradleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBradly peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bradly since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Bradly: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Bradly.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Bradly alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.