Brody

Brody is the 5,185th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,510 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 45,900.

By the numbers

People: 6,510
Rank: 5,185th
How common: 1 in 45,900
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Brody described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Brody

Adrien Brody (born 1973)American actor
Adam Brody (born 1979)American actor
György Bródy (1908–1967)Hungarian water polo player
Sándor Bródy (1863–1924)(1863–1924) writer and journalist
Neville Brody (born 1957)British graphic designer
Tal Brody (born 1943)American-Israeli basketball player
Sándor Bródy (1884–1944)Hungarian association football player

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

Surnames like Brody

Also a first name

Brody has been given to 81,960 American babies as a first name since 1954, peaking in 2008. 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.