Brody

What Brody means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Brody yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2008, with 6,299 babies; 1,492 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Brody?

US: Falling: down from #106 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #148 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2008, when 6,299 boys got the name (#70 that year). First in the US records in 1954.

How common

• About 1 in 1,145 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 554 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 457 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in RI (2.88 per 1,000 boys), MT (2.66 per 1,000 boys), NH (2.22 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Brody is #236 in the US and #106 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Brody were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Brady1,071 US · 36 E&W
• Brodi17 US · 13 E&W
• Brodey5 US · 7 E&W
• Brodee12 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Brody

Boys

• Landon#127“long + hill”^*
• Rylan#416possibly “rye field”^*
• Brayden#229Variant of Braden, meaning “descendant of Bradán”^*
• Cason#846“house”^*
• Mason#39From a surname for “a stonemason”^*
• Jackson#36Editor’s note Down from #17 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US boys in the 2025 records

For a sister

• Hayden#437“hay + valley”^*
• Addison#84Form of Adam, meaning “earth, man, soil, light brown”^*
• Marley#322Editor’s note Down from #218 in 2015 to #322 in 2025 in the US
• Brylee#992Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #477 in 2015, #992 in 2025
• Avery#37Editor’s note Used for both: 82% of US babies named Avery in 2025 were girls
• Kinley#691Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #235 in 2015, #691 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Brody’s. Rank is US 2025.