Meaning not yet researched.
Brodey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,452 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,452 in 2008; #12,329 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brodey in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,329 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,452.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Brodey: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,452 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 113 (2008).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Brodey, making it the 12,329th most common boys’ name of the year, down 3,914 places from #8,415 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 9 boys named Brodey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,452, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 113. For comparison, it was #4,910 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brodey in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 5 babies. In all, 1,181 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 589 babies named Brodey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 123 US boys were named Brodey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brody (81,960 babies since 1880), Brodie (11,889 babies since 1880) and Brodi (976 babies since 1880).
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.
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.
No nicknames listed for Brodey in the open dataset we use.
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 | — | — | 5 | #12,329 |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,415 |
| 2023 | — | — | 7 | #9,902 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,596 |
| 2020 | — | — | 6 | #10,804 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #5,856 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,402 |
| 2017 | — | — | 18 | #5,134 |
| 2016 | — | — | 22 | #4,496 |
| 2015 | — | — | 19 | #4,910 |
| 2014 | — | — | 36 | #3,097 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,135 |
| 2012 | — | — | 73 | #1,944 |
| 2011 | — | — | 69 | #1,989 |
| 2010 | — | — | 73 | #1,928 |
| 2009 | — | — | 78 | #1,862 |
| 2008 | — | — | 113 | #1,452 |
| 2007 | — | — | 82 | #1,782 |
| 2006 | — | — | 58 | #2,206 |
| 2005 | — | — | 61 | #2,037 |
| 2004 | — | — | 64 | #1,913 |
| 2003 | — | — | 46 | #2,315 |
| 2002 | — | — | 36 | #2,642 |
| 2001 | — | — | 19 | #4,145 |
| 2000 | — | — | 32 | #2,810 |
| 1999 | — | — | 30 | #2,801 |
| 1998 | — | — | 31 | #2,659 |
| 1997 | — | — | 20 | #3,466 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,697 |
| 1995 | — | — | 18 | #3,572 |
| 1994 | — | — | 18 | #3,610 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #6,907 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #4,912 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,525 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,649 |
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).