Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Brody” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brody” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brody” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brody” 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
1954 8 0.00000201 8 -100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1970 33 0.00000915 33 -100%
1971 45 0.000013111 45 -100%
1972 48 0.000015272 48 -100%
1973 35 0.000011601 35 -100%
1974 43 0.000014145 43 -100%
1975 66 0.000021859 66 -100%
1976 72 0.000023729 72 -100%
1977 62 0.000019518 62 -100%
1978 55 0.000017329 55 -100%
1979 80 0.000024046 80 -100%
1980 87 0.000025258 87 -100%
1981 86 0.00002486 86 -100%
1982 77 0.00002195 77 -100%
1983 63 0.000018191 63 -100%
1984 97 0.000027804 97 -100%
1985 192 0.000053795 192 -100%
1986 173 0.000048635 173 -100%
1987 154 0.000042711 154 -100%
1988 154 0.000041677 154 -100%
1989 145 0.000037717 145 -100%
1990 164 0.000041493 164 -100%
1991 231 0.000059303 231 -100%
1992 283 0.000073673 283 -100%
1993 488 0.000129433 488 -100%
1994 456 0.000122658 456 -100%
1995 596 0.000162746 6 590 -98%
1996 598 0.000163962 598 -100%
1997 684 0.000188651 684 -100%
1998 751 0.000204176 751 -100%
1999 763 0.000206559 763 -100%
2000 813 0.000215085 5 808 -99%
2001 848 0.000226533 848 -100%
2002 1083 0.000289705 1083 -100%
2003 1470 0.000386606 7 1463 -99%
2004 1744 0.000456434 19 1725 -98%
2005 2052 0.000533702 18 2034 -98%
2006 2838 0.000717357 19 2819 -99%
2007 4242 0.001061115 23 4219 -99%
2008 6319 0.001607616 20 6299 -99%
2009 5410 0.001416165 18 5392 -99%
2010 5070 0.00137185 17 5053 -99%
2011 5097 0.001393464 19 5078 -99%
2012 4374 0.001195942 8 4366 -100%
2013 4347 0.001192374 10 4337 -100%
2014 4339 0.001170685 12 4327 -99%
2015 3763 0.001016776 17 3746 -99%
2016 3072 0.000837354 10 3062 -99%
2017 2568 0.000718082 14 2554 -99%
2018 2487 0.000707359 5 2482 -100%
2019 2258 0.000650546 11 2247 -99%
2020 2152 0.0006442 5 2147 -100%
2021 2044 0.000603315 7 2037 -99%
2022 1802 0.000532642 12 1790 -99%
2023 1810 0.00054663 1810 -100%
2024 1608 0.0004831 1608 -100%

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