Brode
Brode was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 117 Americans have been recorded with it between 2002 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brode by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brode?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,414, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 2006, the peak
Brode peaked in 2006, when 30 boys were given it, #3,458 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #12,414 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,752 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,510 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,016 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,262 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,315 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,458 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,392 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,231 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,767 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brode a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brode has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 10 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brode: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brode, and how old are they?
An estimated 115 Americans named Brode and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 17 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 169 people named Brode (0 women and girls, 169 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 116 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Brode rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 97,023 babies since 1880, Brode is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,745 babies recorded by SSA was a Brode (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Brode
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 Brode and names like it
- Compare Brode and BrodyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrode peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Brode.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brode alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.