Brodie
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #1,038 for boys in 2025, 213 births
Given to boys 95.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2008 · 693 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,391since 1912
Brodie over time
Rank among boys' names. Brodie has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #1,038 | 213 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #961 | 236 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 | #843 | 289 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #888 | 266 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | #811 | 299 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #869 | 259 |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | #868 | 254 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #924 | 230 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | #832 | 267 |
| 2016 | #6,663 | 18 | #779 | 305 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 | #742 | 326 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #682 | 371 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 | #705 | 336 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 | #628 | 387 |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 | #537 | 476 |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 | #516 | 500 |
| 2009 | #4,805 | 30 | #492 | 554 |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 | #421 | 693 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | #459 | 602 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 | #444 | 614 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | #573 | 407 |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 | #617 | 347 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 | #677 | 288 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #703 | 254 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #926 | 167 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #949 | 160 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #1,130 | 116 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #1,044 | 129 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #1,027 | 124 |
| 1996 | — | #1,037 | 118 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,133 | 102 | |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | #1,070 | 109 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,047 | 111 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #1,197 | 87 |
| 1991 | — | #1,467 | 60 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,516 | 56 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,516 | 54 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,404 | 55 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,234 | 62 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,144 | 68 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,170 | 64 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,365 | 48 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,534 | 39 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,441 | 44 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,373 | 47 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,357 | 48 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,270 | 52 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,616 | 34 | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #1,476 | 39 |
| 1976 | — | #1,781 | 28 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,753 | 28 | |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | #1,388 | 38 |
| 1973 | — | #1,354 | 38 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,453 | 34 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,784 | 25 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,989 | 20 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,611 | 10 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,986 | 8 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | #2,409 | 12 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,764 | 9 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,449 | 11 | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | #2,680 | 9 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,495 | 10 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,021 | 7 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,453 | 10 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,443 | 10 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,356 | 11 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,690 | 8 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,131 | 11 | |
| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,563 | 9 | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,719 | 8 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,738 | 8 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,207 | 12 | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | — | #2,589 | 10 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,843 | 9 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,408 | 12 | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | #2,313 | 13 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,043 | 16 | |
| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | — | #3,014 | 9 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,214 | 8 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,967 | 9 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,385 | 12 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,543 | 11 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,458 | 10 | |
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | — | #1,803 | 10 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brodie! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Brodie is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#291 · 1 in 3,872
- Texas#918 · 1 in 16,352
- California#1,690 · 1 in 44,677
Best ever in a state: #71 in Alabama, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #291 | 5 | 1 in 3,872 |
| Texas | #918 | 9 | 1 in 16,352 |
| California | #1,690 | 5 | 1 in 44,677 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Brodie
- 77 spots since 2024 (#961 → #1,038)
- 169 spots since 2020 (#869 → #1,038)
- 296 spots since 2015 (#742 → #1,038)
- Biggest jump: 223 spots in 2002 (#926 → #703)
- Biggest drop: 118 spots in 2024 (#843 → #961)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2008 at #421 (693 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 2000–2024
- Highest: 1 in 2,944 boys born in 2008 were named Brodie (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,019 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 35.9% of all boys named Brodie (4,086) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 59 | #1,803 (1913) | #2,747 |
| 1920s | 86 | #2,043 (1924) | #2,674 |
| 1930s | 59 | #2,207 (1931) | #2,998 |
| 1940s | 78 | #2,131 (1945) | #2,645 |
| 1950s | 65 | #2,449 (1954) | #2,985 |
| 1960s | 67 | #2,409 (1961) | #3,074 |
| 1970s | 336 | #1,270 (1979) | #1,586 |
| 1980s | 529 | #1,144 (1986) | #1,354 |
| 1990s | 1,012 | #1,027 (1997) | #1,167 |
| 2000s | 4,086 | #421 (2008) | #626 |
| 2010s | 3,452 | #516 (2010) | #721 |
| 2020s | 1,562 | #811 (2021) | #902 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brodie in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 28,878 of them was named Brodie, which outranked 84.6% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,158Tariq65
- #1,158Terrel65
- #1,158Yehuda65
- #1,170Brodie64
- #1,170Alfonzo64
- #1,170Billie64
- #1,170Dimitri64
- #1,181Alonso63
- #1,181Blaise63
- #1,181Cordell63
Tied with 10 names at #1,170; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.