Brad
Brad is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. Its best rank was 98th, in 1975.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19602,647 births
- Best rank
- #98in 1975
- Since 1880
- 83,042people given the name
The story in the numbers
83,042 boys have been named Brad in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 2,647 births — 0.12% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 26 births in 2024, against 2,647 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1970, and the 1970s alone account for 27%. It has spent 68 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 1 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Brad | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | |
| 1910s | 16 | |
| 1920s | 36 | |
| 1930s | 178 | |
| 1940s | 1,298 | |
| 1950s | 16,461 | |
| 1960s | 21,354 | |
| 1970s | 22,619 | |
| 1980s | 13,580 | |
| 1990s | 4,375 | |
| 2000s | 2,169 | |
| 2010s | 782 | |
| 2020s | 163 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Brad was the 134th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Brad
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rustypeak 1961
- Krispeak 1962
- Jeffreypeak 1962
- Mickypeak 1961
- Geoffpeak 1962
- Aundrapeak 1967
- Jeffereypeak 1969
- Tyronepeak 1970
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.