Bradlee

Where Bradlee comes from

The dictionaries list Bradlee as a given name — a male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Bradley — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1947
    First appearance
    #3,370 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1996
    Peak, #1,167
    100 babies named Bradlee — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,943.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Bradley.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.