Bradan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bradan has been given to 441 babies in the U.S. since 1989. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 44 recorded.
Babies named Bradan, 2017
1 in 275,000
Bradan over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bradan?
Bradan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 275,000
- 13 of 3,577,106 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 190,729 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bradan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 190,729 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bradan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bradans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bradan was born before 2007 — so the typical Bradan is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 54.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 441
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 54.4% of all recorded uses (240).
Is Bradan rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2005 (44)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.9% average annual change
Spellings of Bradan
Bradan is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 39.4% against Bradan's 0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Bradan is used
Across 1910–2025, Bradan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bradan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bradan around the world
Where Bradan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1999–2016#4,810in 2016
- Northern Ireland2008–2021#374in 2021
- Ireland2011–2021#755in 2021
- South Australia2000–2000#556in 2000
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bradan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bradan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bradan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.