Brady
Brady is ranked 309th among boys in 2024 (1,098 births). Its best rank was 93rd, in 2007.
- Rank in 2024
- #309up 14 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,0980.06% of boys
- Peak year
- 20074,951 births
- Best rank
- #93in 2007
- Since 1883
- 97,775people given the name
The story in the numbers
95,689 boys have been named Brady in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 4,951 births — 0.24% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 195 → 309).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 36%. It has spent 141 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 2 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,086 girls have also been given it, 2.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Brady | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 60 | |
| 1890s | 92 | |
| 1900s | 146 | |
| 1910s | 483 | |
| 1920s | 686 | |
| 1930s | 564 | |
| 1940s | 696 | |
| 1950s | 1,385 | |
| 1960s | 1,675 | |
| 1970s | 4,565 | |
| 1980s | 7,358 | |
| 1990s | 16,231 | |
| 2000s | 34,304 | |
| 2010s | 21,725 | |
| 2020s | 5,719 |
In 2007, its biggest year
Brady was the 93rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Brady
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cristopherpeak 2007
- Anjelpeak 2003
- Evinpeak 2005
- Brandopeak 2005
- Alexsanderpeak 2009
- Angelpeak 2006
- Nikhilpeak 2007
- Josemanuelpeak 2006
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.