girls:
2k births since 1903
#3790 (34th percentile)
boys:
94.6k births since 1883
#318 (93rd percentile)
overall:
96.6k births since 1883
#701 (91st percentile)
The name Brady is the #701 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 96,631 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 91.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #318 (93.1% percentile) for all time with 94,587 births since 1883. For girls, it ranks #3,790 (33.7% percentile) for all time with 2,044 births since 1903.
Brady first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for boys and 1903 for girls).
The name Brady has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brady reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 89.7% percentile (ranked #94) with 2,208 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 2,235 births per million (ranked 89.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brady ranks #307 for boys (66.4% percentile) with 562 births per million, which is 25.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brady reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 6.4% percentile (ranked #876) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 36 births per million (ranked 6.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Brady ranks #912 for girls (3.7% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 63.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brady".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Brady is pronounced as BRAY-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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