Brad

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Brad: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Brad: Recorded since 1975, it reached #77 in 1981, and it stood at #3,688 in 2024.

5registrars recorded it
57times a registrar ranked it
50years from first to last
#77highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#197
1997	#164
1998	#168
1999	#261
2000	#225
2001	#293
2002	#373
2003	#381
2004	#532
2005	#653
2006	#688
2007	#848
2008	#1048
2009	#1649
2010	#1911
2011	#1909
2012	#3416
2013	#2660
2014	#2459
2015	#2707
2017	#3040
2018	#3959
2019	#3937
2020	#4608
2021	#2730
2022	#4001
2024	#3688

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2007: #629 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #848 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1975–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1975
First recorded at #93 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1975 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Highest recorded1976–1986
Highest recorded position: #77 among boys in New Zealand, in 1981 (recorded 1976–1986).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3688 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Brad appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 27 ranked years and 1,321 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Boys, from 1975.

Brad across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Brad's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#197 (1996)	#164 (1997)	#3688 (2024)	27 of 29	1,321 (1996–2024)	212 (1997)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#261 (1995)	#203 (1997)	#629 (2007)	13 of 13	71 (1995–2007)	13 (1997)
New Zealand · Boys	#82 (1976)	#77 (1981)	#100 (1986)	7 of 11	450 (1976–1986)	77 (1977)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#153 (1997)	#151 (2001)	#307 (2005)	7 of 9	48 (1997–2005)	11 (1997)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#93 (1975)	#88 (1976)	#100 (1981)	3 of 7	225 (1975–1981)	79 (1976)

Brad by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Brad in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	683	4 of 10	171
2000sbusiest	556	10 of 10	56
2010s	63	9 of 10	7
2020s	19	4 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 56 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1998 and 1999, when recorded births fell by 91, from 199 to 108.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Brad appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1975 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #77 in New Zealand in 1981.

Brad's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2459	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1909	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1911	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1649	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1048	24	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#848	31	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#688	39	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#653	40	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#532	49	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#381	69	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#373	64	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#293	94	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#225	133	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#261	108	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#168	199	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#164	212	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#197	164	High	Verified
1981	New South Wales, Australia	male	#100	74	Insufficient	Not yet available
1976	New South Wales, Australia	male	#88	79	Insufficient	Not yet available
1975	New South Wales, Australia	male	#93	72	Insufficient	Not yet available
1986	New Zealand	male	#100	50	High	Verified
1985	New Zealand	male	#91	54	High	Verified
1983	New Zealand	male	#81	64	High	Verified
1981	New Zealand	male	#77	66	High	Verified
1978	New Zealand	male	#92	64	High	Verified
1977	New Zealand	male	#79	77	High	Verified
1976	New Zealand	male	#82	75	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#281	3	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#151	11	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#244	4	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#168	9	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#190	7	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#153	11	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#493	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#518	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#322	7	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#273	7	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#274	6	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#222	8	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#280	5	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#203	13	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#369	3	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#261	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1975 and 2024, ranked in 36 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #77, first reached in 1981.

It held a top-100 place in 8 years, 4 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 212 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1976, and 22 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Bracha · #2535, 21y
Bracken · #1391, 17y
Bradan · #281, 14y
Braden · #390, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cory · #77, 33y
Jodi · #78, 40y
Shayne · #76, 34y
Maggie · #79, 35y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Kiri · #77, 30y
Travis · #77, 34y
Jolene · #75, 46y
Nathaniel · #79, 38y

Brad was ranked #77 in New Zealand · Boys in 1981. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Brad and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Brad without appearing here.

Brad moved ahead of

Brett Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4001 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #4270.
Grant Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4001 and #4001 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #4270.
Graeme Compare
In 1998 they stood at #280 and #280 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 1999 that had become #222 and #330.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2003 they stood at #451 and #451 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2004 that had become #322 and #390.

Moved ahead of Brad

Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2730 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4001 and #2018.
Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3959 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3937 and #2104.
Hans Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2730 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4001 and #2320.
Malin Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3959 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3937 and #2728.

Moved the opposite way to Brad

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brad went from #197 to #3688 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brad went from #197 to #3688 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brad went from #197 to #3688 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brad went from #197 to #3688 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Brad

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brad went from #197 to #3688 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brad went from #197 to #3688 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brad went from #197 to #3688 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brad went from #197 to #3688 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1975 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #77 in New Zealand in 1981. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Brad across 5 official records

Brad by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Brad across 5 official records

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