girls:
11 births since 1986
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
9.3k births since 1946
#1223 (73rd percentile)
overall:
9.3k births since 1946
#2787 (64th percentile)
The name Bradly is the #2,787 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,329 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 64.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,223 (73.3% percentile) for all time with 9,318 births since 1946. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1986.
Bradly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (1946 for boys and 1986 for girls).
The name Bradly has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Bradly reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 30.6% percentile (ranked #534) with 118 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 118 births per million (ranked 30.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1998, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Bradly ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 5.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Bradly reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #861) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bradly".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Bradly is pronounced as BRAD-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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