Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Brad” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brad” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brad” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Brad” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Brad” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Brad” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Brad” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brad” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 5 0.000024816 5 -100%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 -100%
1920 11 0.000004862 11 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 9 0.00000392 9 -100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 -100%
1931 10 0.000004752 10 -100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 -100%
1933 12 0.000006002 12 -100%
1934 17 0.000008186 17 -100%
1935 27 0.000012919 27 -100%
1936 19 0.000009145 19 -100%
1937 30 0.00001408 30 -100%
1938 18 0.000008135 18 -100%
1939 30 0.000013615 30 -100%
1940 31 0.000013463 31 -100%
1941 36 0.000014776 36 -100%
1942 60 0.000021963 60 -100%
1943 65 0.000023029 65 -100%
1944 67 0.000024906 67 -100%
1945 73 0.000027517 73 -100%
1946 163 0.000051012 163 -100%
1947 230 0.000063848 230 -100%
1948 266 0.000077045 266 -100%
1949 307 0.000088097 307 -100%
1950 460 0.000131303 460 -100%
1951 615 0.00016695 615 -100%
1952 965 0.000254081 965 -100%
1953 1651 0.000428426 1651 -100%
1954 1845 0.000463485 1845 -100%
1955 1882 0.000468733 5 1877 -99%
1956 2254 0.000546684 2254 -100%
1957 2191 0.000521401 2191 -100%
1958 2255 0.000545489 2255 -100%
1959 2348 0.000564696 2348 -100%
1960 2654 0.000638931 7 2647 -99%
1961 2507 0.000605219 7 2500 -99%
1962 2082 0.000515938 2082 -100%
1963 2274 0.000574504 2274 -100%
1964 2286 0.000588023 7 2279 -99%
1965 2090 0.00057648 2090 -100%
1966 1896 0.000545509 1896 -100%
1967 1777 0.000523433 6 1771 -99%
1968 1715 0.000507635 6 1709 -99%
1969 2117 0.000609152 11 2106 -99%
1970 2339 0.000648549 13 2326 -99%
1971 2176 0.000633967 11 2165 -99%
1972 1757 0.000559021 9 1748 -99%
1973 1893 0.000627468 8 1885 -99%
1974 2496 0.000821053 13 2483 -99%
1975 2618 0.000867061 8 2610 -99%
1976 2453 0.000808424 16 2437 -99%
1977 2535 0.00079805 11 2524 -99%
1978 2122 0.000668584 15 2107 -99%
1979 2350 0.000706342 16 2334 -99%
1980 2382 0.000691536 11 2371 -99%
1981 1967 0.0005686 9 1958 -99%
1982 1698 0.000484042 11 1687 -99%
1983 1476 0.000426178 5 1471 -99%
1984 1243 0.000356288 6 1237 -99%
1985 1150 0.000322209 7 1143 -99%
1986 1107 0.00031121 5 1102 -99%
1987 1036 0.00028733 10 1026 -98%
1988 835 0.000225978 835 -100%
1989 750 0.000195087 750 -100%
1990 649 0.000164201 649 -100%
1991 566 0.000145305 566 -100%
1992 471 0.000122616 471 -100%
1993 456 0.000120946 456 -100%
1994 383 0.000103022 383 -100%
1995 398 0.000108679 398 -100%
1996 419 0.000114883 419 -100%
1997 388 0.000107012 388 -100%
1998 338 0.000091893 338 -100%
1999 307 0.000083111 307 -100%
2000 289 0.000076457 289 -100%
2001 263 0.000070257 263 -100%
2002 231 0.000061793 231 -100%
2003 215 0.000056544 215 -100%
2004 212 0.000055484 212 -100%
2005 228 0.0000593 228 -100%
2006 214 0.000054092 214 -100%
2007 206 0.00005153 206 -100%
2008 166 0.000042232 166 -100%
2009 145 0.000037956 145 -100%
2010 117 0.000031658 117 -100%
2011 117 0.000031987 117 -100%
2012 99 0.000027069 99 -100%
2013 86 0.00002359 86 -100%
2014 76 0.000020505 76 -100%
2015 88 0.000023778 88 -100%
2016 50 0.000013629 50 -100%
2017 55 0.000015379 55 -100%
2018 54 0.000015359 54 -100%
2019 40 0.000011524 40 -100%
2020 41 0.000012273 41 -100%
2021 36 0.000010626 36 -100%
2022 32 0.000009459 32 -100%
2023 28 0.000008456 28 -100%
2024 26 0.000007811 26 -100%

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