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Bradey

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Bradey has been given to 723 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 2002, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Bradey, 2020

1 in 371,000

Bradey over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bradey: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bradey means

Bradey is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Bradey is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Bradey is pronounced /ˈbreɪdi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 714 boys were recorded with the name Bradey between 1970 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2002; its best national rank was #2,211 in 1993.

In the United States, 9 girls were recorded with the name Bradey between 2007 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2007; its best national rank was #11,779 in 2007.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bradey?

Bradey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 192,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,414 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bradey sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 257,414 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bradey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bradeys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bradey was born before 2001 — so the typical Bradey is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
714
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Choose a decade

2000s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (317).

Is Bradey 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2002 (39)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,211
1993

Spellings of Bradey

Bradey is not the most common spelling — Bradley is, with 34.5% against Bradey's 0.08%.

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 Bradey is used

Across 1910–2025, Bradey was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 511,395 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in —
  2. 2Washington1 in —
  3. 3Wisconsin1 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. Bradey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bradey around the world

Where Bradey 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 & Wales
    2004–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1992–2011
    #2,366
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1986–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bradey by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,211
1993
Peak year
2002
39 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
714
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,779
2007
Peak year
2007
9 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
9
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bradey

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Bradey

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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