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Bradly

The boy's name Bradly has been in the national records since 1946, with 9,354 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 7,679th. About 8,600 Bradlys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Bradly boys named Bradly

By the numbers

Total US births
9,354
Estimated living today
8,600
Median age today
38
Peak year
1990
Best rank
635th
Rank in 2025
7,679th
First recorded
1946
Girls / boys
11 / 9,343

How old the living Bradlys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 9,354 babies given the name since 1946, about 8,600 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 800 of them are children and 510 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a surname

Spelling variant of Bradley.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Bradlys

People named Bradly with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Bradly is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Bradly is most concentrated in Iowa (3.1×), Oregon (2.3×), Minnesota (2.3×), Washington (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1990

The most popular boys’ names the year Bradly peaked:

All the names of 1990

Bradly elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Bradly 92 1,322nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Bradly against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.