Brady
Brady was given to 1,071 boys in 2025, #321 among boys’ names; 98,908 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 93,500 Americans named Brady and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brady by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brady mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brady is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “broad” (brād) and “eye” (ēage) and “broad” (brād).
From Old English brād (“broad”) + ēage (“eye”) and brād (“broad”) + ēġ (“island”); or from Irish Ó Brádaigh.
/ˈbɹeɪdi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brady?
#321 among boys’ names, 2025
Brady fell from #199 in 2015 to #321 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.1 to 0.63 per 1,000.
5,015 babies in 2007, the peak
Brady peaked in 2007, when 5,015 babies were given it (4,951 boys, #93 among boys’ names). The 1,123 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,071 | #321 | 0.63 |
| 2024 | 1,102 | #309 | 0.64 |
| 2023 | 1,034 | #323 | 0.60 |
| 2022 | 1,223 | #282 | 0.70 |
| 2021 | 1,278 | #272 | 0.73 |
| 2020 | 1,089 | #304 | 0.63 |
| 2019 | 1,304 | #274 | 0.73 |
| 2018 | 1,383 | #261 | 0.76 |
| 2017 | 1,689 | #226 | 0.91 |
| 2016 | 1,753 | #222 | 0.92 |
Every recorded year (143)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,032 | #199 | 1.1 |
| 2014 | 2,093 | #195 | 1.1 |
| 2013 | 2,332 | #175 | 1.2 |
| 2012 | 2,860 | #136 | 1.5 |
| 2011 | 3,045 | #135 | 1.6 |
| 2010 | 3,236 | #126 | 1.7 |
| 2009 | 3,741 | #110 | 1.9 |
| 2008 | 4,815 | #94 | 2.4 |
| 2007 | 4,951 | #93 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 4,086 | #106 | 2.0 |
| 2005 | 3,781 | #110 | 1.9 |
| 2004 | 3,369 | #122 | 1.7 |
| 2003 | 2,865 | #142 | 1.5 |
| 2002 | 2,659 | #147 | 1.4 |
| 2001 | 2,153 | #174 | 1.1 |
| 2000 | 1,884 | #189 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 1,887 | #184 | 1.0 |
| 1998 | 2,095 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 1997 | 2,162 | #159 | 1.1 |
| 1996 | 1,915 | #176 | 1.0 |
| 1995 | 1,679 | #188 | 0.88 |
| 1994 | 1,848 | #173 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 1,839 | #174 | 0.94 |
| 1992 | 1,204 | #238 | 0.60 |
| 1991 | 805 | #320 | 0.40 |
| 1990 | 797 | #315 | 0.39 |
| 1989 | 843 | #291 | 0.42 |
| 1988 | 952 | #246 | 0.50 |
| 1987 | 877 | #255 | 0.47 |
| 1986 | 894 | #251 | 0.49 |
| 1985 | 915 | #248 | 0.50 |
| 1984 | 699 | #291 | 0.39 |
| 1983 | 505 | #351 | 0.28 |
| 1982 | 572 | #334 | 0.32 |
| 1981 | 559 | #332 | 0.31 |
| 1980 | 541 | #340 | 0.30 |
| 1979 | 479 | #365 | 0.28 |
| 1978 | 443 | #364 | 0.27 |
| 1977 | 390 | #397 | 0.24 |
| 1976 | 399 | #385 | 0.25 |
| 1975 | 466 | #358 | 0.30 |
| 1974 | 479 | #350 | 0.30 |
| 1973 | 467 | #358 | 0.30 |
| 1972 | 453 | #369 | 0.28 |
| 1971 | 470 | #372 | 0.27 |
| 1970 | 520 | #357 | 0.28 |
| 1969 | 266 | #471 | 0.15 |
| 1968 | 199 | #538 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 165 | #588 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 152 | #603 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 145 | #629 | 0.08 |
| 1964 | 154 | #625 | 0.08 |
| 1963 | 174 | #596 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 143 | #647 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 143 | #655 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 134 | #675 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 142 | #644 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 182 | #573 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 159 | #607 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 164 | #593 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 170 | #567 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 151 | #600 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 113 | #669 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 113 | #649 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 93 | #718 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 99 | #684 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 84 | #748 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 86 | #722 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 87 | #736 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 82 | #723 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 65 | #762 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 56 | #843 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 71 | #774 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 58 | #860 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 56 | #847 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 51 | #881 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 65 | #747 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 60 | #800 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 50 | #870 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 53 | #832 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 42 | #981 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 57 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 55 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 59 | #830 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 56 | #843 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 67 | #784 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 51 | #941 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 58 | #874 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 82 | #717 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 67 | #805 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 62 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 85 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 58 | #898 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 69 | #811 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 60 | #902 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 94 | #655 | 0.09 |
| 1919 | 70 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1918 | 59 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1917 | 61 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 67 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1915 | 58 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 49 | #754 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 47 | #651 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 30 | #804 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 21 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1910 | 21 | #639 | 0.11 |
| 1909 | 21 | #576 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 19 | #591 | 0.12 |
| 1907 | 11 | #823 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 14 | #647 | 0.11 |
| 1905 | 10 | #796 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 16 | #571 | 0.12 |
| 1903 | 16 | #552 | 0.13 |
| 1902 | 14 | #590 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 14 | #538 | 0.13 |
| 1900 | 11 | #790 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 14 | #523 | 0.13 |
| 1898 | 8 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 10 | #689 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 13 | #599 | 0.11 |
| 1895 | 11 | #643 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 7 | #846 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 8 | #805 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 7 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 9 | #672 | 0.08 |
| 1889 | 12 | #556 | 0.11 |
| 1888 | 9 | #709 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 5 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 13 | #517 | 0.12 |
| 1885 | 7 | #772 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 6 | #864 | 0.05 |
| 1883 | 8 | #688 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brady a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 98,908 Americans recorded as Brady, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 52 girls and 1,071 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brady: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brady, and how old are they?
93,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 98,908 Americans ever recorded as Brady. The median Brady alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 84,835 people named Brady (1,749 women and girls, 83,086 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 87,820 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 204 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,710 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,590 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 16,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 49,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 19,800 |
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 Brady born?
The states with the most babies named Brady are Texas, New York and Ohio, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 86 | #442 | 0.8× |
| New York | 62 | #298 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 60 | #220 | 1.3× |
| California | 59 | #523 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 53 | #370 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 51 | #230 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 43 | #288 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 42 | #241 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 42 | #253 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 41 | #282 | 1.1× |
Where Brady is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brady is most over-represented in North Dakota: since 1910 it was given 3.0 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 Brady 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 99,631 babies since 1880, Brady is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,123 of their 1,123 babies (100%), again the 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 Brady
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 Brady and names like it
- Compare Brady and BradeyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrady peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brady since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Brady: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Brady.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brady alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.