Brody
About 81,960 American babies have been named Brody since 1954, most of them around 2008. In 2025 it ranked 236th. About 81,000 Brodys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Brody boys named Brody
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 81,960
- Estimated living today
- 81,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 70th
- Rank in 2025
- 236th
- First recorded
- 1954
- Girls / boys
- 282 / 81,678
How old the living Brodys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 81,960 babies given the name since 1954, about 81,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 60,000 of them are children and 19 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Brodys
- Brody Jenner (born 1983)American reality television personality and model
- Brody Stevens (1970–2019)American comedian
- Brody Dalle (born 1979)Australian musician
- Brody Malone (born 2000)American gymnast
People named Brody with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Brody is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Brody is most concentrated in Utah (2.3×), Arizona (2.2×), Idaho (2.1×), Nevada (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular boys’ names the year Brody peaked:
Brody elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Brody | 7,721 | 84th |
| Scotland boys | Brody | 960 | 69th |
| Ireland boys | Brody | 870 | 85th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Brody | 435 | 73rd |
| England and Wales girls | Brody | 134 | 1,383rd |
| Scotland girls | Brody | 7 | 577th |
| Ireland girls | Brody | 3 | 862nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Brody against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.