Brady
70,047 people in the United States were counted with the surname Brady in the 2020 census, making it the 465th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,267.
By the numbers
- People
- 70,047
- Rank
- 465th
- How common
- 1 in 4,267
- Per 100,000
- 23.4
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
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.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Brady described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Brady
- Tom Brady (born 1977)American football player
- Alice Brady (1892–1939)American actress
- Wayne Brady (born 1972)American actor, comedian, and television personality
- Robbie Brady (born 1992)Irish footballer
- Mathew Benjamin Brady (1822–1896)American photographer (c. 1823 – 1896)
- Liam Brady (born 1956)Irish footballer and manager
- Seán Brady (born 1939)Irish Roman Catholic cardinal
- Jennifer Brady (born 1995)US American tennis player
People named Brady with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Brady
Also a first name
Brady has been given to 98,908 American babies as a first name since 1883, peaking in 2007. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.