Brady
The boy's name Brady has been in the national records since 1883, with 98,908 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 321st. About 94,000 Bradys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Brady boys named Brady
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 98,908
- Estimated living today
- 94,000
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 93rd
- Rank in 2025
- 321st
- First recorded
- 1883
- Girls / boys
- 2,138 / 96,770
How old the living Bradys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 98,908 babies given the name since 1883, about 94,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 38,000 of them are children and 1,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 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
From Old English brād (“broad”) + ēage (“eye”) and brād (“broad”) + ēġ (“island”); or from Irish Ó Brádaigh.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Bradys
- Brady Corbet (born 1988)American film director and actor
- Brady Ellison (born 1988)American archer
- Brady Leman (born 1986)Canadian ski cross racer
- Brady Tkachuk (born 1999)American ice hockey player
- Brady Skjei (born 1994)American ice hockey player
- Brady Haran (born 1976)Australian video journalist
- Brady Noon (born 2005)American actor
- Brady Bluhm (born 1983)American actor
People named Brady with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Brady is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Brady is most concentrated in Utah (3.2×), North Dakota (3.2×), South Dakota (2.3×), Minnesota (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular boys’ names the year Brady peaked:
Brady elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Brady | 847 | 466th |
| France boys | Brady | 320 | 1,118th |
| Scotland boys | Brady | 120 | 298th |
| Ireland boys | Brady | 63 | 432nd |
| England and Wales girls | Brady | 18 | 3,725th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Brady | 11 | 264th |
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.
Brady among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Brady | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Brady against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.