# Brady (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/brady/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Irish |
| Meaning | “broad”, “eye”, “island” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbɹeɪdi/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Bradish |
| US babies named this | 98,908 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 96,770 / 2,138 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 865, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Old English brād (“broad”) + ēage (“eye”) and brād (“broad”) + ēġ (“island”); or from Irish Ó Brádaigh.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 27 | 5,087 |
| 2012 | 42 | 3,723 |
| 2013 | 30 | 4,669 |
| 2014 | 37 | 4,021 |
| 2015 | 36 | 4,082 |
| 2016 | 41 | 3,718 |
| 2017 | 61 | 2,788 |
| 2018 | 52 | 3,117 |
| 2019 | 41 | 3,675 |
| 2020 | 50 | 3,151 |
| 2021 | 65 | 2,645 |
| 2022 | 45 | 3,481 |
| 2023 | 40 | 3,777 |
| 2024 | 42 | 3,653 |
| 2025 | 52 | 3,110 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,045 | 135 |
| 2012 | 2,860 | 136 |
| 2013 | 2,332 | 175 |
| 2014 | 2,093 | 195 |
| 2015 | 2,032 | 199 |
| 2016 | 1,753 | 222 |
| 2017 | 1,689 | 226 |
| 2018 | 1,383 | 261 |
| 2019 | 1,304 | 274 |
| 2020 | 1,089 | 304 |
| 2021 | 1,278 | 272 |
| 2022 | 1,223 | 282 |
| 2023 | 1,034 | 323 |
| 2024 | 1,102 | 309 |
| 2025 | 1,071 | 321 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 4 | 3,126 |
| 1998 | 4 | 3,142 |
| 1999 | 3 | 3,900 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3,725 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 1,087 |
| 2012 | 31 | 947 |
| 2013 | 15 | 1,539 |
| 2014 | 22 | 1,178 |
| 2015 | 22 | 1,186 |
| 2016 | 33 | 914 |
| 2017 | 21 | 1,247 |
| 2018 | 22 | 1,194 |
| 2019 | 25 | 1,083 |
| 2020 | 26 | 1,051 |
| 2021 | 27 | 1,055 |
| 2022 | 31 | 967 |
| 2023 | 30 | 987 |
| 2024 | 39 | 826 |
| 2025 | 36 | 873 |

## People named Brady

- Brady Corbet, American film director and actor
- Brady Ellison, American archer
- Brady Leman, Canadian ski cross racer
- Brady Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
- Brady Skjei, American ice hockey player
- Brady Haran, Australian video journalist (1976-)
- Brady Bluhm, American actor
- Brady Noon, American actor
- Brady Heslip, Canadian basketball player (born 1990)
- Brady Quinn, American football quarterback
- Brady Barr, American herpetologist and documentary filmmaker
- Brady Gilmore, Australian cyclist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.