Fun Facts About the Name Brody
- More than 81 thousand babies named Brody: U.S. records list 81,948 babies given the name Brody from 1880 through 2025. Even 282 girls received the name Brody - about 1 girl for every 290 boys.
What Does the Name Brody Mean?
Brody is an English given name taken from the Scottish surname Brodie, which comes from the lands of Brodie in Moray, in northeastern Scotland. The place name is generally explained as Scottish Gaelic, most often connected with brothach, meaning "muddy place" or "ditch," though the exact Gaelic word behind it is not certain. The given name is a variant spelling of Brodie; the -y ending is the more common form in the United States. A separate place name, Brody, exists in Ukraine and Poland, formed from the Slavic element brod, "ford"; this Slavic name is unrelated to the given name and to the Scottish surname.
Brody Name History & Origins
The surname Brodie comes from a family that held land at Brodie in Moray, in northeastern Scotland, where Brodie Castle stands near Forres. The family's records reach back to the medieval period, and Brodie was well established as a Scottish surname before it began to be used as a first name. Surnames of this kind were taken from a landed estate and then spread as the family and its tenants moved and intermarried.
Brody is one of several spellings, alongside Brodie and Broady. As a given name it is a relatively recent development that grew out of the surname in the English-speaking world, and it follows the wider pattern of Scottish surnames being adopted as first names. The surname appears in popular fiction, for example in the character Police Chief Martin Brody in Peter Benchley's novel Jaws (1974) and its film adaptation, but such uses are associations of the surname rather than the source of the given name.
How Popular is the Name Brody?
Brody recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2008. Brody entered the top 100 U.S. boy names 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 | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | #8,624 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2021 | #12,439 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2020 | #15,534 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #9,230 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #16,119 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2017 | #7,922 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2016 | #10,232 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2015 | #7,031 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2014 | #9,076 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2013 | #10,394 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2012 | #12,420 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2011 | #6,606 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2010 | #7,273 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2009 | #7,117 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2008 | #6,598 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2007 | #5,935 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2006 | #6,631 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2005 | #6,581 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2004 | #6,273 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2003 | #12,631 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2000 | #15,432 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1995 | #11,999 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #236 | 1,492 | 0.0873% |
| 2024 | #224 | 1,608 | 0.0937% |
| 2023 | #204 | 1,810 | 0.1059% |
| 2022 | #207 | 1,790 | 0.1026% |
| 2021 | #186 | 2,037 | 0.1165% |
| 2020 | #178 | 2,147 | 0.1245% |
| 2019 | #172 | 2,247 | 0.1253% |
| 2018 | #157 | 2,482 | 0.1367% |
| 2017 | #152 | 2,554 | 0.1380% |
| 2016 | #135 | 3,062 | 0.1614% |
| 2015 | #106 | 3,746 | 0.1955% |
| 2014 | #93 | 4,327 | 0.2253% |
| 2013 | #94 | 4,337 | 0.2293% |
| 2012 | #91 | 4,366 | 0.2302% |
| 2011 | #83 | 5,078 | 0.2674% |
| 2010 | #83 | 5,053 | 0.2634% |
| 2009 | #77 | 5,392 | 0.2719% |
| 2008 | #70 | 6,299 | 0.3088% |
| 2007 | #106 | 4,219 | 0.2033% |
| 2006 | #148 | 2,819 | 0.1372% |
| 2005 | #193 | 2,034 | 0.1018% |
| 2004 | #210 | 1,725 | 0.0869% |
| 2003 | #232 | 1,463 | 0.0741% |
| 2002 | #279 | 1,083 | 0.0558% |
| 2001 | #327 | 848 | 0.0436% |
| 2000 | #339 | 808 | 0.0411% |
| 1999 | #349 | 763 | 0.0397% |
| 1998 | #350 | 751 | 0.0393% |
| 1997 | #362 | 684 | 0.0363% |
| 1996 | #395 | 598 | 0.0316% |
| 1995 | #395 | 590 | 0.0310% |
| 1994 | #472 | 456 | 0.0236% |
| 1993 | #448 | 488 | 0.0249% |
| 1992 | #611 | 283 | 0.0142% |
| 1991 | #665 | 231 | 0.0114% |
| 1990 | #795 | 164 | 0.0080% |
| 1989 | #825 | 145 | 0.0072% |
| 1988 | #762 | 154 | 0.0080% |
| 1987 | #735 | 154 | 0.0082% |
| 1986 | #688 | 173 | 0.0094% |
| 1985 | #635 | 192 | 0.0104% |
| 1984 | #884 | 97 | 0.0054% |
| 1983 | #1,134 | 63 | 0.0035% |
| 1982 | #1,031 | 77 | 0.0042% |
| 1981 | #972 | 86 | 0.0048% |
| 1980 | #963 | 87 | 0.0049% |
| 1979 | #991 | 80 | 0.0046% |
| 1978 | #1,204 | 55 | 0.0033% |
| 1977 | #1,103 | 62 | 0.0038% |
| 1976 | #979 | 72 | 0.0046% |
| 1975 | #1,009 | 66 | 0.0042% |
| 1974 | #1,292 | 43 | 0.0027% |
| 1973 | #1,436 | 35 | 0.0022% |
| 1972 | #1,178 | 48 | 0.0030% |
| 1971 | #1,237 | 45 | 0.0025% |
| 1970 | #1,466 | 33 | 0.0018% |
| 1969 | #3,635 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1968 | #3,727 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1967 | #3,271 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1965 | #3,277 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1964 | #4,113 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1962 | #3,679 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1959 | #3,312 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 1957 | #4,049 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1956 | #3,250 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 1954 | #2,977 | 8 | 0.0004% |
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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