Meaning not yet researched.
Brody: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,492 in 2025. Its best rank was #70 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #70 in 2008; #236 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brody in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#236 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #70.
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Brody: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,492 boys in 2025. Peak: #70 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 6,299 (2008).
In 2025, 1,492 US boys were named Brody, making it the 236th most common boys’ name of the year, down 12 places from #224 in 2024. That is 123 fewer than the 1,615 boys named Brody in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #70, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 6,299. For comparison, it was #106 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brody in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 8 babies. In all, 81,960 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 37,380 babies named Brody.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 21,240 US boys were named Brody; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,062. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,145 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brody ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #129 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Brodie (11,889 babies since 1880), Brodey (1,181 babies since 1880) and Brodi (976 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brodee, Broady and Broedy are summarised on this page.
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: Brodee (742), Broady (89), Broedy (69), Brohdy (5).
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 Brody in the open dataset we use.
Brody is listed as a nickname for Brady, Broderick.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 7 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 9 | #129 | #118 |
| Montana | 10 | #129 | #23 |
| New Hampshire | 10 | #146 | #67 |
| Michigan | 66 | #154 | #88 |
| Minnesota | 42 | #158 | #71 |
| New Jersey | 63 | #158 | #129 |
| Kentucky | 33 | #165 | #84 |
| Delaware | 6 | #171 | #160 |
| South Dakota | 8 | #171 | #73 |
| North Dakota | 7 | #174 | #48 |
| Wisconsin | 35 | #176 | #104 |
| Ohio | 71 | #184 | #103 |
| Pennsylvania | 68 | #189 | #106 |
| Arizona | 45 | #193 | #92 |
| Missouri | 37 | #194 | #70 |
| Massachusetts | 33 | #194 | #92 |
| Kansas | 20 | #199 | #78 |
| Alabama | 27 | #207 | #97 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #213 | #48 |
| Oregon | 19 | #221 | #87 |
| Oklahoma | 21 | #222 | #73 |
| Tennessee | 40 | #223 | #118 |
| Florida | 91 | #232 | #124 |
| Maryland | 24 | #233 | #111 |
| Utah | 22 | #234 | #151 |
| Washington | 32 | #242 | #108 |
| New York | 76 | #252 | #165 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #260 | #56 |
| Iowa | 15 | #260 | #64 |
| Idaho | 10 | #261 | #107 |
| Connecticut | 12 | #269 | #100 |
| California | 137 | #272 | #174 |
| North Carolina | 44 | #277 | #112 |
| Louisiana | 18 | #279 | #79 |
| Indiana | 28 | #283 | #91 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #285 | #85 |
| Arkansas | 12 | #287 | #78 |
| South Carolina | 19 | #289 | #131 |
| Colorado | 22 | #295 | #110 |
| Georgia | 40 | #308 | #133 |
| Illinois | 33 | #326 | #142 |
| Texas | 113 | #333 | #144 |
| Virginia | 22 | #368 | #111 |
| Nevada | 8 | #369 | #137 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,492 | #236 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,615 | #224 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,811 | #204 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,629 | 1,791 | #207 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,450 | 2,037 | #186 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,542 | 2,148 | #178 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,236 | 2,247 | #172 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,126 | 2,483 | #157 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,923 | 2,554 | #152 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,236 | 3,062 | #135 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,032 | 3,747 | #106 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,078 | 4,327 | #93 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,400 | 4,337 | #94 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,421 | 4,366 | #91 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,607 | 5,078 | #83 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,273 | 5,056 | #83 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,117 | 5,392 | #77 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,598 | 6,299 | #70 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,935 | 4,219 | #106 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,631 | 2,819 | #148 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,582 | 2,034 | #193 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,273 | 1,725 | #210 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,631 | 1,463 | #232 |
| 2002 | — | — | 1,083 | #279 |
| 2001 | — | — | 848 | #327 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,432 | 808 | #339 |
| 1999 | — | — | 763 | #349 |
| 1998 | — | — | 751 | #350 |
| 1997 | — | — | 684 | #362 |
| 1996 | — | — | 598 | #395 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,000 | 590 | #395 |
| 1994 | — | — | 456 | #472 |
| 1993 | — | — | 488 | #448 |
| 1992 | — | — | 283 | #611 |
| 1991 | — | — | 231 | #665 |
| 1990 | — | — | 164 | #795 |
| 1989 | — | — | 145 | #825 |
| 1988 | — | — | 154 | #762 |
| 1987 | — | — | 152 | #741 |
| 1986 | — | — | 173 | #688 |
| 1985 | — | — | 192 | #635 |
| 1984 | — | — | 97 | #884 |
| 1983 | — | — | 63 | #1,133 |
| 1982 | — | — | 77 | #1,031 |
| 1981 | — | — | 85 | #978 |
| 1980 | — | — | 87 | #963 |
| 1979 | — | — | 80 | #991 |
| 1978 | — | — | 55 | #1,204 |
| 1977 | — | — | 62 | #1,103 |
| 1976 | — | — | 72 | #979 |
| 1975 | — | — | 66 | #1,008 |
| 1974 | — | — | 42 | #1,312 |
| 1973 | — | — | 35 | #1,436 |
| 1972 | — | — | 48 | #1,178 |
| 1971 | — | — | 45 | #1,236 |
| 1970 | — | — | 33 | #1,466 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,635 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,728 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,019 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,278 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,114 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,678 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,313 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,047 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,250 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #2,977 |
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).