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Bradley
Pronounced /ˈbɹædli/
Rank in 2024
#364
Born in 2024
906
Peak year
1980 · #51
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:52 in 2024 (#3,103)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 906 boys were named Bradley, about 1 in every 1,893.
- It peaked in 1980 with 7,209 babies, ranked #51.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 312,200 boys have been named Bradley since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Bradley per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 1.5Boomers1946–64
- 3.3Gen X1965–80
- 3.2Millennials1981–96
- 1.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.9Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,245 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Silent: 3,850 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Boomers: 57,086 babies, 1.52 per 1,000. Gen X: 90,771 babies, 3.34 per 1,000. Millennials: 98,735 babies, 3.24 per 1,000. Gen Z: 41,565 babies, 1.32 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 18,773 babies, 0.86 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Ultimately from Old English brād (“broad”) + lēah (“woodland”). Equivalent to broad + -ley.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈbɹædli/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Bradley, CC BY-SA 4.0.