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 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 100,064 of them was named Brody, which outranked 67.1% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,356Ytzel20
- #6,356Zamia20
- #6,356Zykia20
- #6,592Brody19
- #6,592Aaryn19
- #6,592Adali19
- #6,592Adira19
- #6,840Aamiyah18
- #6,840Aaralynn18
- #6,840Aariyah18
Tied with 247 names at #6,592; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 729 of them was named Brody, which outranked 98.9% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.