How rare is the name Bradyn?

4,327 people in the United States have the first name Bradyn, about 1 in 69,802. It ranks #4,352 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

BRADYN

#4,352

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,327
About
1 in 69,802
This common or more
83.9%
Who bears it

Of the 4,327 people named Bradyn, 80.4% reported their origin as White, 6.9% as two or more races and 6% as Hispanic or Latino. 94.6% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Bradyn peaked in 2008, when 426 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19892025
Peak year
2008
Births that year
426
In 2025*
36 ▼92%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 4,997 babies have been given the name since 1989. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Bradyn by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,625. The largest share of babies named Bradyn, 74.9%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1980s#26,8768
1990s#5,254369
2000s#1,6252,740
2010s#2,5541,604
2020s#5,950276
Millennials 1981–963.6%
Generation Z 1997–1274.9%
2013 and later21.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Bradyn is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Bradyn has been most common in Oklahoma (2.3×), Kansas (2.3×), and Iowa (2.1×), and least common in New York (0.36×).

3,165 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Bradyn

1 other first name also has 4,327 people.

#4,352 Julisa · 4,327

Either side of Bradyn

#4,350 Khoa · 4,333#4,351 Judd · 4,329#4,352 Julisa · 4,327#4,354 Magnus · 4,326

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Bradyn, most common first.

#984 Braden · 43,698#5,651 Bradon · 2,993#7,170 Braedyn · 2,149#19,105 Braidyn · 559#20,827 Bradan · 493#23,042 Bradin · 428#23,187 Braydyn · 424#29,846 Brodyn · 295

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