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Brady vs Braulio

American parents have registered 98,908 Bradys since 1880, against 5,135 Braulios. Brady is still ahead, with 1,123 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Brady Braulio

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

Brady has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1883 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1928, when Brady had 58 and Braulio had 16.

Side by side

  Brady Braulio
Total US births 98,9085,135
Most in one year 5,015248
Babies in 2025 1,12368
Estimated living today 94,0004,800
Median age today 2021
Peak year 20072005
Best rank 93rd boys784th boys
Rank in 2025 321st2,125th
First recorded 18831915
Girls / boys 2,138 / 96,7700 / 5,135

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Brady Braulio
England and Wales 8653

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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