girls:
1.9k births since 1920
#3931 (31st percentile)
boys:
311.3k births since 1880
#110 (98th percentile)
overall:
313.1k births since 1880
#243 (97th percentile)
The name Bradley is the #243 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 313,138 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #110 (97.6% percentile) for all time with 311,277 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,931 (31.2% percentile) for all time with 1,861 births since 1920.
Bradley has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1920 for girls). Birth data for Bradley is available in 139 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (139 years for boys and 74 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 Bradley has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 94.9% of babies named Bradley were boys.
For boys, Bradley reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 93.3% percentile (ranked #47) with 3,866 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 3,887 births per million (ranked 92.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Bradley ranks #338 for boys (63.0% percentile) with 494 births per million, which is 12.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Bradley reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #737) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 35 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Bradley ranks #903 for girls (4.7% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 81.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bradley".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Bradley. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Bradley is pronounced as BRAD-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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