Bradyn
#3,254 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bradyn has been given to 4,997 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #3,254 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 407 recorded.
Babies named Bradyn, 2025
1 in 92,100
Bradyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Bradyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 92,100
- 36 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 47,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,254
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 63,832 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bradyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bradyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bradyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bradyn was born before 2008 — so the typical Bradyn is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 54.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,773
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 54.3% of all recorded uses (2,592).
Is Bradyn 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
- +957
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,112
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,858
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.29×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 8.8%
- Peak was 2008 (407)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.9% average annual change
Spellings of Bradyn
Bradyn is not the most common spelling — Brandon is, with 54.2% against Bradyn's 0.34%.
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 Bradyn is used
Across 2016–2025, Bradyn was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 57,379 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
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.
Bradyn around the world
Where Bradyn 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 & Wales2003–2016#4,810in 2016
- France2007–2013#5,022in 2013
- Canada1993–2014#2,374in 2014
- South Australia1982–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bradyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Bradyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Bradyn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Bradyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Bradyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.