Brodie
Brodie is a boy's name that peaked in 2008, when it was the 421st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,038th. About 11,000 Brodies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Brodie boys named Brodie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,889
- Estimated living today
- 11,000
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 421st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,038th
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 498 / 11,391
How old the living Brodies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,889 babies given the name since 1912, about 11,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 6,500 of them are children and 100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 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
"ditch" or "mire", from the old Irish word broth.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Brodies
- Brodie Lee (1979–2020)American professional wrestler
- Brodie Retallick (born 1991)New Zealand rugby union footballer
People named Brodie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Brodie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Brodie is most concentrated in Alabama (3.6×), Colorado (1.8×), Wyoming (1.8×), Idaho (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular boys’ names the year Brodie peaked:
Brodie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Brodie | 5,132 | 135th |
| Scotland boys | Brodie | 3,576 | 11th |
| England and Wales girls | Brodie | 964 | 367th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Brodie | 362 | 63rd |
| Scotland girls | Brodie | 330 | 183rd |
| Ireland boys | Brodie | 216 | 192nd |
| New Zealand boys | Brodie | 216 | 81st |
| Ireland girls | Brodie | 10 | 750th |
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
Brodie 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.