Fun Facts About the Name Brodey
- More than 1 thousand babies named Brodey: U.S. records list 1,181 babies given the name Brodey from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Brodey Mean?
Brodey is a spelling variant of the given name Brody, which comes from the Scottish surname Brodie. That surname is a habitational name taken from Brodie, a place in Moray in northeastern Scotland. The place name is usually explained as Scottish Gaelic, most often said to come from brothach, "muddy place" or "ditch," based on broth, "mire." A competing explanation connects it to Gaelic bruthach, "bank," "brae," or "hill-slope." Because the early forms of the place name are not firmly settled, the exact sense remains uncertain, and the "muddy place" reading is a customary interpretation rather than a proven one.
A separate origin exists for the same-sounding surname Brody: it is also a Jewish surname from the town of Brody in Galicia, now in Ukraine. That town's name goes back to a Slavic word brod, "ford," so this line carries a different meaning. The given name Brodey belongs to the Scottish line in most uses, but a family using it could have either background.
Brodey Name History & Origins
The surname Brodie has been attached to the Brodie family of Moray since the Middle Ages; the family took its name from its lands at Brodie, and the Brodies of that region were an established landed family with a chief recognized in the Scottish clan system. From Scotland the surname spread to England, Ireland, and North America, and it appears in both the Brodie and Brody spellings.
Separately, the town of Brody in Galicia gave its name to Jewish families who lived there or took it as a surname, and that surname traveled with emigrants from eastern Europe. Like many surnames, the Scottish and the eastern European forms both came to be used as first names in English-speaking countries. Brodey is a later phonetic respelling of Brody: it keeps the same pronunciation and varies only the spelling of the ending, in the same way -ey is used for -y in other names.
How Popular is the Name Brodey?
Brodey has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2008. Its best rank was #1,452 in 2008.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #12,329 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2024 | #8,388 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #9,893 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #6,888 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2021 | #5,596 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2020 | #10,798 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #5,850 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2018 | #6,398 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2017 | #5,133 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2016 | #4,495 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2015 | #4,909 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2014 | #3,097 | 36 | 0.0019% |
| 2013 | #3,135 | 35 | 0.0019% |
| 2012 | #1,944 | 73 | 0.0038% |
| 2011 | #1,989 | 69 | 0.0036% |
| 2010 | #1,928 | 73 | 0.0038% |
| 2009 | #1,860 | 78 | 0.0039% |
| 2008 | #1,452 | 113 | 0.0055% |
| 2007 | #1,782 | 82 | 0.0040% |
| 2006 | #2,206 | 58 | 0.0028% |
| 2005 | #2,037 | 61 | 0.0031% |
| 2004 | #1,913 | 64 | 0.0032% |
| 2003 | #2,315 | 46 | 0.0023% |
| 2002 | #2,642 | 36 | 0.0019% |
| 2001 | #4,144 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2000 | #2,810 | 32 | 0.0016% |
| 1999 | #2,800 | 30 | 0.0016% |
| 1998 | #2,659 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 1997 | #3,466 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1996 | #3,697 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1995 | #3,572 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 1994 | #3,610 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 1993 | #6,904 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1992 | #4,913 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1988 | #6,525 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1985 | #6,649 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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