Bradyn
Bradyn was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,254 among boys’ names; 4,997 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,930 Americans named Bradyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bradyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bradyn?
#3,254 among boys’ names, 2025
Bradyn fell from #1,396 in 2015 to #3,254 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 64.2 to 21.1 per million.
426 babies in 2008, the peak
Bradyn peaked in 2008, when 426 babies were given it (407 boys, #612 among boys’ names). The 36 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,254 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,211 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 48 | #2,699 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 51 | #2,619 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 51 | #2,553 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,142 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,086 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 77 | #1,922 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 103 | #1,575 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 81 | #1,848 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 123 | #1,396 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 166 | #1,143 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 164 | #1,112 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 205 | #975 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 269 | #815 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 311 | #735 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 399 | #627 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 407 | #612 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 385 | #631 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 333 | #678 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 311 | #675 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 228 | #790 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 182 | #912 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 165 | #964 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,333 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 85 | #1,444 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 78 | #1,468 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 53 | #1,847 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 51 | #1,834 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,071 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,025 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,622 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,672 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,341 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,581 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,435 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,682 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bradyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,997 Americans recorded as Bradyn, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 36 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Bradyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bradyn, and how old are they?
4,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,997 Americans ever recorded as Bradyn. The median Bradyn alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 4,327 people named Bradyn (235 women and girls, 4,092 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,690 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 172 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,070 |
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 Bradyn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #1,877 | 0.5× |
Where Bradyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bradyn is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1989 it was given 1.3 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 Bradyn 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 231,698 babies since 1880, Bradyn is the sixth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 1,962 babies (1.8%), the fifth 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 Bradyn
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 Bradyn and names like it
- Compare Bradyn and BraydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBradyn peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bradyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Bradyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bradyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.