Brody
Brody was given to 1,492 boys in 2025, #236 among boys’ names; 81,960 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 80,900 Americans named Brody and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brody by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brody mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brody is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
/bɹoʊdi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brody?
#236 among boys’ names, 2025
Brody fell from #106 in 2015 to #236 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 2.0 to 0.87 per 1,000.
6,319 babies in 2008, the peak
Brody peaked in 2008, when 6,319 babies were given it (6,299 boys, #70 among boys’ names). The 1,492 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,492 | #236 | 0.87 |
| 2024 | 1,615 | #224 | 0.94 |
| 2023 | 1,811 | #204 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 1,791 | #207 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 2,037 | #186 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 2,148 | #178 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 2,247 | #172 | 1.3 |
| 2018 | 2,483 | #157 | 1.4 |
| 2017 | 2,554 | #152 | 1.4 |
| 2016 | 3,062 | #135 | 1.6 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3,747 | #106 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 4,327 | #93 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 4,337 | #94 | 2.3 |
| 2012 | 4,366 | #91 | 2.3 |
| 2011 | 5,078 | #83 | 2.7 |
| 2010 | 5,056 | #83 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 5,392 | #77 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 6,299 | #70 | 3.1 |
| 2007 | 4,219 | #106 | 2.0 |
| 2006 | 2,819 | #148 | 1.4 |
| 2005 | 2,034 | #193 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 1,725 | #210 | 0.87 |
| 2003 | 1,463 | #232 | 0.74 |
| 2002 | 1,083 | #279 | 0.56 |
| 2001 | 848 | #327 | 0.44 |
| 2000 | 808 | #339 | 0.41 |
| 1999 | 763 | #349 | 0.40 |
| 1998 | 751 | #350 | 0.39 |
| 1997 | 684 | #362 | 0.36 |
| 1996 | 598 | #395 | 0.32 |
| 1995 | 590 | #395 | 0.31 |
| 1994 | 456 | #472 | 0.24 |
| 1993 | 488 | #448 | 0.25 |
| 1992 | 283 | #609 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 231 | #663 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 164 | #791 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 145 | #822 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 154 | #761 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 152 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 173 | #688 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 192 | #635 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 97 | #884 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,133 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 77 | #1,031 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 85 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 87 | #963 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 80 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 55 | #1,204 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 62 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 72 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 66 | #1,008 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 42 | #1,312 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 35 | #1,436 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 48 | #1,178 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,236 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 33 | #1,465 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,634 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,727 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,277 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,113 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,677 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,312 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,046 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,249 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #2,976 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brody a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brody has been given almost only to boys: 282 girls in 66 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brody: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brody, and how old are they?
80,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 81,960 Americans ever recorded as Brody. The median Brody alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 67,093 people named Brody (305 women and girls, 66,788 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 70,822 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 27 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 590 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,790 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 43,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 33,500 |
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 Brody born?
The states with the most babies named Brody are California, Texas and Florida, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 137 | #272 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 113 | #333 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 91 | #232 | 0.8× |
| New York | 76 | #252 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 71 | #184 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 68 | #189 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 66 | #154 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 63 | #158 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 45 | #193 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 44 | #277 | 0.8× |
Where Brody is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brody is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1954 it was given 2.1 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 Brody 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 97,023 babies since 1880, Brody is the most given (84% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,492 of their 1,745 babies (86%), 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 Brody
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 Brody and names like it
- Compare Brody and BrodieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrody peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brody since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Brody: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Brody.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brody alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.