girls:
282 births since 1995
#5434 (5th percentile)
boys:
78.5k births since 1954
#366 (92nd percentile)
overall:
78.8k births since 1954
#807 (90th percentile)
The name Brody is the #807 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 78,826 recorded births since 1954. This represents the 89.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #366 (92.0% percentile) for all time with 78,544 births since 1954. For girls, it ranks #5,434 (4.9% percentile) for all time with 282 births since 1995.
Brody first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1954 (1954 for boys and 1995 for girls). Birth data for Brody is available in 64 out of the 70 years between 1954 and 2023 (64 years for boys and 22 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 Brody has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brody reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 92.4% percentile (ranked #70) with 2,888 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 2,888 births per million (ranked 92.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brody ranks #201 for boys (78.0% percentile) with 985 births per million, which is 34.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brody reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #969) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brody".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Brody is pronounced as BROH-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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