Meaning not yet researched.
Brad: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #98 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #98 in 1975; #4,267 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brad in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,267 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #98.
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Brad: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #98 in 1975 · most boys in one year: 2,644 (1960).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Brad, making it the 4,267th most common boys’ name of the year, down 176 places from #4,091 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 26 boys named Brad in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #98, reached in 1975. The most boys given the name in a single year was 2,644, in 1960. For comparison, it was #1,744 in 2015 and #320 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brad in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 83,293 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 22,737 babies named Brad.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 386 US boys were named Brad; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bradley (314,957 babies since 1880) and Bret (30,051 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bradd and Brayde are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Bradford and Ford.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bradd (653), Brayde (37).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Brad is listed as a nickname for Bradford, Bradley.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 24 | #4,267 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,091 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,901 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,545 |
| 2021 | — | — | 36 | #3,251 |
| 2020 | — | — | 41 | #2,889 |
| 2019 | — | — | 40 | #2,999 |
| 2018 | — | — | 54 | #2,419 |
| 2017 | — | — | 55 | #2,351 |
| 2016 | — | — | 50 | #2,521 |
| 2015 | — | — | 88 | #1,744 |
| 2014 | — | — | 76 | #1,908 |
| 2013 | — | — | 86 | #1,711 |
| 2012 | — | — | 99 | #1,589 |
| 2011 | — | — | 117 | #1,411 |
| 2010 | — | — | 117 | #1,415 |
| 2009 | — | — | 145 | #1,234 |
| 2008 | — | — | 166 | #1,105 |
| 2007 | — | — | 206 | #955 |
| 2006 | — | — | 214 | #906 |
| 2005 | — | — | 228 | #824 |
| 2004 | — | — | 212 | #838 |
| 2003 | — | — | 215 | #809 |
| 2002 | — | — | 231 | #749 |
| 2001 | — | — | 263 | #685 |
| 2000 | — | — | 289 | #632 |
| 1999 | — | — | 307 | #603 |
| 1998 | — | — | 338 | #579 |
| 1997 | — | — | 388 | #521 |
| 1996 | — | — | 419 | #498 |
| 1995 | — | — | 398 | #513 |
| 1994 | — | — | 383 | #516 |
| 1993 | — | — | 456 | #463 |
| 1992 | — | — | 471 | #461 |
| 1991 | — | — | 566 | #401 |
| 1990 | — | — | 649 | #363 |
| 1989 | — | — | 750 | #320 |
| 1988 | — | — | 834 | #278 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,845 | 1,026 | #228 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,094 | 1,102 | #216 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,435 | 1,143 | #211 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,260 | 1,237 | #196 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,443 | 1,471 | #175 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,963 | 1,687 | #163 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,856 | 1,958 | #143 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,950 | 2,371 | #116 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,436 | 2,334 | #115 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,475 | 2,106 | #123 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,564 | 2,524 | #106 |
| 1976 | 16 | #3,979 | 2,438 | #108 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,552 | 2,608 | #98 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,486 | 2,483 | #105 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,146 | 1,885 | #137 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,517 | 1,748 | #149 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,837 | 2,164 | #139 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,257 | 2,327 | #139 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,453 | 2,106 | #145 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,323 | 1,709 | #158 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,096 | 1,771 | #155 |
| 1966 | — | — | 1,896 | #150 |
| 1965 | — | — | 2,091 | #148 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,527 | 2,278 | #143 |
| 1963 | — | — | 2,273 | #146 |
| 1962 | — | — | 2,082 | #158 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,350 | 2,501 | #142 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,219 | 2,644 | #134 |
| 1959 | — | — | 2,347 | #149 |
| 1958 | — | — | 2,255 | #151 |
| 1957 | — | — | 2,191 | #153 |
| 1956 | — | — | 2,254 | #142 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,911 | 1,877 | #153 |
| 1954 | — | — | 1,846 | #154 |
| 1953 | — | — | 1,650 | #164 |
| 1952 | — | — | 966 | #212 |
| 1951 | — | — | 615 | #273 |
| 1950 | — | — | 460 | #320 |
| 1949 | — | — | 307 | #384 |
| 1948 | — | — | 266 | #414 |
| 1947 | — | — | 230 | #441 |
| 1946 | — | — | 163 | #506 |
| 1945 | — | — | 73 | #709 |
| 1944 | — | — | 67 | #761 |
| 1943 | — | — | 65 | #817 |
| 1942 | — | — | 60 | #840 |
| 1941 | — | — | 36 | #1,093 |
| 1940 | — | — | 31 | #1,211 |
| 1939 | — | — | 30 | #1,199 |
| 1938 | — | — | 18 | #1,620 |
| 1937 | — | — | 30 | #1,212 |
| 1936 | — | — | 19 | #1,550 |
| 1935 | — | — | 27 | #1,298 |
| 1934 | — | — | 17 | #1,729 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,111 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,122 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,497 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,054 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,031 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,754 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #2,934 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,278 |
| 1920 | — | — | 11 | #2,621 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,777 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,055 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,311 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #833 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #929 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).