Brody
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #8,542 · #236 for boys in 2025, 1,492 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2008 · 6,299 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 7 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 81,678since 1954
Brody over time
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #236 | 1,492 | |
| 2024 | — | #224 | 1,615 | |
| 2023 | — | #204 | 1,811 | |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #207 | 1,791 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #186 | 2,037 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #178 | 2,148 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #172 | 2,247 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #157 | 2,483 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #152 | 2,554 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 | #135 | 3,062 |
| 2015 | #6,977 | 17 | #106 | 3,747 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #93 | 4,327 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 | #94 | 4,337 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #91 | 4,366 |
| 2011 | #6,564 | 19 | #83 | 5,078 |
| 2010 | #7,217 | 17 | #83 | 5,056 |
| 2009 | #7,066 | 18 | #77 | 5,392 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #70 | 6,299 |
| 2007 | #5,895 | 23 | #106 | 4,219 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 | #148 | 2,819 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #193 | 2,034 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | #210 | 1,725 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #232 | 1,463 |
| 2002 | — | #279 | 1,083 | |
| 2001 | — | #327 | 848 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #339 | 808 |
| 1999 | — | #349 | 763 | |
| 1998 | — | #350 | 751 | |
| 1997 | — | #362 | 684 | |
| 1996 | — | #395 | 598 | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #395 | 590 |
| 1994 | — | #472 | 456 | |
| 1993 | — | #448 | 488 | |
| 1992 | — | #611 | 283 | |
| 1991 | — | #664 | 231 | |
| 1990 | — | #793 | 164 | |
| 1989 | — | #825 | 145 | |
| 1988 | — | #762 | 154 | |
| 1987 | — | #739 | 152 | |
| 1986 | — | #688 | 173 | |
| 1985 | — | #635 | 192 | |
| 1984 | — | #884 | 97 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,130 | 63 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,031 | 77 | |
| 1981 | — | #976 | 85 | |
| 1980 | — | #963 | 87 | |
| 1979 | — | #991 | 80 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,203 | 55 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,099 | 62 | |
| 1976 | — | #977 | 72 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,007 | 66 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,311 | 42 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,435 | 35 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,177 | 48 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,235 | 45 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,462 | 33 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,985 | 8 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,290 | 7 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,216 | 7 | |
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| 1954 | — | #2,942 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brody! It came in at #2,942, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1955, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Brody
- 12 spots since 2024 (#224 → #236)
- 58 spots since 2020 (#178 → #236)
- 130 spots since 2015 (#106 → #236)
- Biggest jump: 249 spots in 1985 (#884 → #635)
- Biggest drop: 122 spots in 1977 (#977 → #1,099)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 2008 at #70 (6,299 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 7 yrs · run 2008–2014
- Top 1,000: 46 yrs · run 1984–2025
- Highest: 1 in 324 boys born in 2008 were named Brody (0.31%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,145 boys born in 2025 (0.09%)
- 45.6% of all boys named Brody (37,257) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 27 | #2,942 (1954) | #3,360 |
| 1960s | 39 | #2,985 (1967) | #3,529 |
| 1970s | 538 | #977 (1976) | #1,190 |
| 1980s | 1,225 | #635 (1985) | #863 |
| 1990s | 5,008 | #349 (1999) | #484 |
| 2000s | 26,690 | #70 (2008) | #198 |
| 2010s | 37,257 | #83 (2011) | #117 |
| 2020s | 10,894 | #178 (2020) | #206 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brody in 1983
Top boys' names in 1983
More about 1983
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1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 28,453 of them was named Brody, which outranked 84.6% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,120Tate64
- #1,120Tye64
- #1,120Uriel64
- #1,130Brody63
- #1,130Anson63
- #1,130Baron63
- #1,130Britt63
- #1,144Abelardo62
- #1,144Adrien62
- #1,144Corry62
Tied with 13 names at #1,130; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.