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Bradely vs Brandi

American parents have registered 102,295 Brandis since 1880, against 55 Bradelys. Brandi is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bradely against Brandi, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bradely Brandi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Brandi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1949 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1969, when Bradely had 11 and Brandi had 436.

Side by side

  Bradely Brandi
Total US births 55102,295
Most in one year 115,551
Babies in 2025 under 528
Estimated living today 5099,000
Median age today 4241
Peak year 19691981
Best rank 2,682nd boys50th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,758th
First recorded 19691949
Girls / boys 0 / 55101,906 / 389

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bradely and Brandi.