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How popular is “Brady” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brady” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brady” 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 “Brady” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brady” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brady” 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
1883 8 0.000036876 8 -100%
1884 6 0.000024645 6 -100%
1885 7 0.000029063 7 -100%
1886 13 0.000050917 13 -100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1888 9 0.000030053 9 -100%
1889 12 0.00004153 12 -100%
1890 9 0.000029861 9 -100%
1891 7 0.000024418 7 -100%
1892 8 0.000023925 8 -100%
1893 7 0.000021524 7 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 -100%
1896 13 0.000036365 13 -100%
1897 10 0.000028822 10 -100%
1898 8 0.000020972 8 -100%
1899 14 0.000041269 14 -100%
1900 11 0.00002443 11 -100%
1901 14 0.000040484 14 -100%
1902 14 0.000036201 14 -100%
1903 22 0.000057712 6 16 -45%
1904 16 0.000039655 16 -100%
1905 10 0.000023589 10 -100%
1906 14 0.000032676 14 -100%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 -100%
1908 19 0.000038883 19 -100%
1909 21 0.000041078 21 -100%
1910 21 0.00003555 21 -100%
1911 21 0.000032595 21 -100%
1912 30 0.000030362 30 -100%
1913 47 0.000041333 47 -100%
1914 49 0.000034596 49 -100%
1915 58 0.000031652 58 -100%
1916 67 0.000034636 67 -100%
1917 61 0.000030397 61 -100%
1918 59 0.000027175 59 -100%
1919 70 0.000033172 70 -100%
1920 94 0.000041544 94 -100%
1921 66 0.000028272 6 60 -82%
1922 75 0.000032763 6 69 -84%
1923 58 0.00002519 58 -100%
1924 85 0.00003569 85 -100%
1925 62 0.000026572 62 -100%
1926 67 0.000029182 67 -100%
1927 82 0.000035355 82 -100%
1928 58 0.000025653 58 -100%
1929 56 0.000025546 5 51 -82%
1930 67 0.000030136 67 -100%
1931 56 0.000026611 56 -100%
1932 59 0.000027945 59 -100%
1933 55 0.000027508 55 -100%
1934 57 0.000027446 57 -100%
1935 42 0.000020097 42 -100%
1936 53 0.00002551 53 -100%
1937 50 0.000023467 50 -100%
1938 60 0.000027118 60 -100%
1939 65 0.000029499 65 -100%
1940 51 0.000022148 51 -100%
1941 56 0.000022984 56 -100%
1942 58 0.000021231 58 -100%
1943 71 0.000025154 71 -100%
1944 56 0.000020817 56 -100%
1945 65 0.000024501 65 -100%
1946 82 0.000025663 82 -100%
1947 87 0.000024151 87 -100%
1948 91 0.000026358 5 86 -89%
1949 84 0.000024105 84 -100%
1950 99 0.000028259 99 -100%
1951 93 0.000025246 93 -100%
1952 113 0.000029752 113 -100%
1953 113 0.000029323 113 -100%
1954 157 0.00003944 6 151 -92%
1955 170 0.00004234 170 -100%
1956 164 0.000039777 164 -100%
1957 159 0.000037838 159 -100%
1958 182 0.000044026 182 -100%
1959 141 0.000033911 141 -100%
1960 134 0.00003226 134 -100%
1961 148 0.000035729 5 143 -93%
1962 148 0.000036676 5 143 -93%
1963 182 0.00004598 8 174 -91%
1964 159 0.000040899 5 154 -94%
1965 145 0.000039995 145 -100%
1966 157 0.000045171 5 152 -94%
1967 165 0.000048602 165 -100%
1968 204 0.000060383 5 199 -95%
1969 266 0.00007654 266 -100%
1970 532 0.000147511 12 520 -95%
1971 477 0.000138972 7 470 -97%
1972 467 0.000148584 14 453 -94%
1973 490 0.000162419 23 467 -91%
1974 499 0.000164145 20 479 -92%
1975 484 0.000160297 18 466 -93%
1976 424 0.000139736 25 399 -88%
1977 405 0.000127499 15 390 -93%
1978 465 0.000146509 22 443 -91%
1979 496 0.000149083 18 478 -93%
1980 577 0.000167513 36 541 -88%
1981 581 0.000167949 22 559 -92%
1982 613 0.000174745 41 572 -87%
1983 529 0.000152743 24 505 -91%
1984 740 0.00021211 41 699 -89%
1985 960 0.000268975 44 916 -91%
1986 932 0.000262013 38 894 -92%
1987 912 0.000252939 35 877 -92%
1988 987 0.000267115 35 952 -93%
1989 866 0.00022526 23 843 -95%
1990 822 0.000207971 25 797 -94%
1991 838 0.000215133 33 805 -92%
1992 1238 0.000322289 34 1204 -95%
1993 1880 0.000498637 41 1839 -96%
1994 1888 0.000507847 40 1848 -96%
1995 1729 0.000472126 50 1679 -94%
1996 1955 0.000536028 40 1915 -96%
1997 2204 0.000607874 42 2162 -96%
1998 2136 0.000580718 41 2095 -96%
1999 1930 0.000522488 43 1887 -96%
2000 1919 0.000507685 35 1884 -96%
2001 2192 0.000585566 39 2153 -96%
2002 2697 0.000721453 38 2659 -97%
2003 2907 0.000764533 42 2865 -97%
2004 3419 0.00089481 50 3369 -97%
2005 3823 0.000994318 42 3781 -98%
2006 4150 0.001048989 64 4086 -97%
2007 5015 0.001254477 64 4951 -97%
2008 4869 0.001238722 54 4815 -98%
2009 3790 0.000992101 49 3741 -97%
2010 3266 0.00088372 31 3235 -98%
2011 3071 0.000839578 27 3044 -98%
2012 2902 0.000793467 42 2860 -97%
2013 2362 0.000647892 30 2332 -97%
2014 2130 0.000574685 37 2093 -97%
2015 2068 0.000558781 36 2032 -97%
2016 1794 0.000489002 41 1753 -95%
2017 1750 0.000489347 61 1689 -93%
2018 1435 0.000408146 52 1383 -93%
2019 1345 0.000387504 41 1304 -94%
2020 1139 0.000340959 50 1089 -91%
2021 1343 0.000396405 65 1278 -90%
2022 1267 0.000374505 45 1222 -93%
2023 1072 0.00032375 40 1032 -93%
2024 1140 0.000342497 42 1098 -93%

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