Bradon
Bradon was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,302 among boys’ names; 2,060 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,000 Americans named Bradon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bradon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bradon?
#12,302 among boys’ names, 2025
Bradon fell from #5,319 in 2015 to #12,302 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 2.9 per million.
104 babies in 2005, the peak
Bradon peaked in 2005, when 104 boys were given it, #1,412 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,302 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,010 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,973 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,405 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,781 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,297 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,248 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,529 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,777 | 6.3 |
| 2015 | 17 | #5,319 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #6,686 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,819 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 36 | #3,117 | 19.0 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,707 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 36 | #3,132 | 18.8 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,186 | 30.8 |
| 2008 | 71 | #1,983 | 34.8 |
| 2007 | 71 | #1,978 | 34.2 |
| 2006 | 92 | #1,583 | 44.8 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,412 | 52.1 |
| 2004 | 77 | #1,672 | 38.8 |
| 2003 | 74 | #1,670 | 37.5 |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,445 | 45.3 |
| 2001 | 78 | #1,540 | 40.1 |
| 2000 | 93 | #1,358 | 47.4 |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,436 | 42.2 |
| 1998 | 64 | #1,620 | 33.5 |
| 1997 | 68 | #1,517 | 36.1 |
| 1996 | 73 | #1,420 | 38.5 |
| 1995 | 66 | #1,464 | 34.7 |
| 1994 | 66 | #1,449 | 34.2 |
| 1993 | 48 | #1,765 | 24.5 |
| 1992 | 54 | #1,618 | 27.0 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,764 | 22.3 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,085 | 17.0 |
| 1989 | 51 | #1,563 | 25.5 |
| 1988 | 43 | #1,644 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 43 | #1,613 | 23.0 |
| 1986 | 32 | #1,876 | 17.4 |
| 1985 | 35 | #1,729 | 18.9 |
| 1984 | 34 | #1,695 | 18.8 |
| 1983 | 30 | #1,825 | 16.7 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,004 | 14.9 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,580 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,543 | 10.7 |
| 1979 | 15 | #2,917 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,192 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,407 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,499 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,649 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,879 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,252 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,493 | 3.7 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,553 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bradon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bradon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bradon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bradon, and how old are they?
2,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,060 Americans ever recorded as Bradon. The median Bradon alive today is 26 years old; half are between 20 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 2,993 people named Bradon (19 women and girls, 2,974 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,988 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 668 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 111 |
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 Bradon born?
The states with the most babies named Bradon are Texas, California and Ohio, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 112 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 64 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 49 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Utah | 38 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 29 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 24 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Bradon 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 231,168 babies since 1880, Bradon is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 1,950 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Bradon
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 Bradon and names like it
- Compare Bradon and BraydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBradon peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bradon since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Bradon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bradon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.