girls:
233 births since 1955
#5483 (4th percentile)
boys:
83k births since 1880
#350 (92nd percentile)
overall:
83.3k births since 1880
#778 (90th percentile)
The name Brad is the #778 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 83,250 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #350 (92.4% percentile) for all time with 83,017 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,483 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 233 births since 1955.
Brad has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1955 for girls). Birth data for Brad is available in 104 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (104 years for boys and 25 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Brad has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brad reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 85.4% percentile (ranked #97) with 1,608 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 1,608 births per million (ranked 85.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1978, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brad ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 1.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brad reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #749) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brad".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Brad. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Brad is pronounced as brad, which has 1 syllables.
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